Martha Beck Quotes
Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.
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The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.
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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
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I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.
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I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives from the inside out. I write humorous poems to tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.
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Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.
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Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'
