Anna Akhmatova Quotes
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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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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Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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You lived aloof, maintaining to the end your magnificent disdain.