I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

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ANNA LEE Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
ANNA LINDH A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
ANNA HELD I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct t...
ANNA KENDRICK I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs...
ANNA KENDRICK There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn yo...
ANNA QUINDLEN It's very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you h...
ANNA WINTOUR Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
ANNA QUINDLEN Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine,...
ANNA WINTOUR The right to happiness is fundamental.
ANNA PAVLOVA We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
ANNA FREUD I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattl...
ANNA FARIS It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s...
ANNA WINTOUR There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
ANNA GODBERSEN Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at...
ANNA GODBERSEN I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's goi...
ANNA TORV The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; th...
ANNA QUINDLEN You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really r...
ANNA KENDRICK Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.
ANNA KENDRICK The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile...
ANNA KENDRICK I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
ANNA GUNN

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

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I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

Anna Akhmatova

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