Anna Akhmatova Quotes
The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own
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Human nature as we know it is, nevertheless, malleable and manageable. It may be radically modified as a result of advances in bio-, molecular, nano- and computational technologies. It will therefore be essential to establish a clear code of ethics regulating the use of these technologies sooner rather than later.
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Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.
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By all that's good and glorious.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.
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I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.
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The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
