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Mikhail Bulgakov Novelist, Playwright
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"Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing."

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"The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the book, of me as a 5-year-old dressed in my first Halloween costume that she made for me. I said, "What's this? I never saw this photo." And she said, "We made you this black-and-orange Halloween costume out of crepe paper" - we were too poor to have fabric back then - "and you wanted to go as the Queen Of Halloween." And I was like, "What?" And she said, "Yeah, the Princess Of Halloween, the Queen Of Halloween, something like that."

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Brian May Musician, Astrophysicist
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"I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it."

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Audrey Hepburn Actress, Humanitarian
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"I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness."

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Saint Francis de Sales Saint, Bishop
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"And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways."

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"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along."

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper."

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician
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""The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it.""

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician
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""Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted."

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Joyce Giraud Model, Actress
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"I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition."

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Princess Diana Philanthropist, Humanitarian
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"As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought."

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Prince Andrew Royal Family Member
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"The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything."

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Brian May Musician, Astrophysicist
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"From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band"

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