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 will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.
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The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.
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When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.
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I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or you want to start a start-up or a business, anything that very much feels like it's uniquely yours and you may not be able to get traction going through traditional channels - the way to do it is to build it brick by brick on your own in microsteps.
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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...
