Anna Akhmatova Quotes
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
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I was very insecure at the beginning of my career. I didn't value my talent. I would have probably skipped signing up for movies that I didn't want to do if I had understood that I had been accepted and people liked my work.
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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
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It is one of the unhappy incidents of the federal system that a self-righteous Supreme Court, acting on its Members' personal view of what would make a 'more perfect Union' (a criterion only slightly more restrictive than a 'more perfect world') can impose its own favored social and economic dispositions nationwide.
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
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I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.
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For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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Some things need to be broken to become stronger.
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I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?"
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You lived aloof, maintaining to the end your magnificent disdain.
