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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You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?
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I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.
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By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
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Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.
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You lived aloof, maintaining to the end your magnificent disdain.
