David Whyte Quotes
If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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I don't work with a stylist.
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I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
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I would say that the first 'X-Men' was the hardest. It took us a long time to get it going.
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I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.
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A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand.
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If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.
