Alexandra Kollontai Quotes
I never gave a thought to any kind of danger, being all too engrossed in matters of an utterly different character.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
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After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.
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Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.
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The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.
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I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.
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I never gave a thought to any kind of danger, being all too engrossed in matters of an utterly different character.
