Anna Kavan Quotes
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
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At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.
