Anna Akhmatova Quotes
It's all the same to me. The Yenisei swirls, the North Star shines, as it will shine forever; and the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes is clouded over by the final horror. - The House on the Fontanka, 19 August 1939

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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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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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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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I love the idea of live theater the best because you are sitting there with the community in the dark, looking at the light, and that's really - you can't get any higher than that.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.
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We all agreed that philosophically, it was not OK, and ethically, it wasn't OK. We're going to take the word 'divert' totally out of our vocabulary.
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It's all the same to me. The Yenisei swirls, the North Star shines, as it will shine forever; and the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes is clouded over by the final horror. - The House on the Fontanka, 19 August 1939