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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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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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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I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.
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It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.
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New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.
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I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.
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That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.
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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
