Anna Kavan Quotes
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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Im very nurturing.
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Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.
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I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.
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Me.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.
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I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.
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I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.
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The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.
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Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.
