Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.
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I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
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I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
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I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
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Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
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There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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I like to leave things open to interpretation. But I also like to make a point. There's two meanings behind each EP title. With 'Time,' that was 'time to move on': you know, you've been in a bad situation; this is enough. But it was also time, in my life, for introducing myself, my first project I was putting out with Mustard. A new exciting time.
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Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.
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What does not change / is the will to change
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I audition for a lot and don't get a lot.
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[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.
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I really don't care what they do, to be honest with you.
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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.
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Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.
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It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.
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Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
