Anna Akhmatova Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.
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It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.
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The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
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Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.
