Anna Akhmatova Quotes
Such grief might make the mountain stoop, reverse the waters where they flow, but cannot burst these ponderous bolts that block us from the prison cells crowded with mortal woe...
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.
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He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
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Such grief might make the mountain stoop, reverse the waters where they flow, but cannot burst these ponderous bolts that block us from the prison cells crowded with mortal woe...
