Anna Kavan Quotes
I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.
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Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.
