Anna Komnene Quotes
The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.
Anna Komnene
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I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.
Margot Robbie
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When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
Jerzy Kosinski
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My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I was going to riots and everything, but he turned out great and gave us a nice cheque for an AIDS benefit we had for the 'Serial Mom' premiere.
John Waters
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You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
Garry Winogrand
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You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
will.i.am
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.
Thomas Malory
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Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.
Emily Dickinson
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The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage.
Elena Ferrante
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My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.
Ellen Schreiber
