Anna Komnene Quotes
The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.
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I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.
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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.
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Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.
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Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.
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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.
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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.
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My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.
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Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.
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One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.
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And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.
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Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
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There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.
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I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.
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A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.
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To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.
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Obama had a mandate for change and Trump clearly does not.
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The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.
