Anna Akhmatova Quotes
You thought I was that type: That you could forget me, And that I'd plead and weep And throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare...
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
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I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was very naughty, and my mom thought if I was busy, I'd be better. And I didn't really do acting until later on in the school, with an amazing teacher. I left, went traveling, came back.
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I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.
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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
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Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
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I'm really a cook. I used to be the opposite - I used to go out a lot - but now I primarily cook.
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
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There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.
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You thought I was that type: That you could forget me, And that I'd plead and weep And throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare...
