Anna Kavan Quotes
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.
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Man's got his woman to take his seed He's got the power - oh She's got the need She spends her life through pleasing up her man She feeds him dinner or anything she can. She cries alone at night too often He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed...
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I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.
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If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole...
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You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.
