David Whyte Quotes
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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You had better have one King than five hundred.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. … Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.
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It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.
