Debbie Ford Quotes
If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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I haven't really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything that I was brought up with, in terms of their values or politics.
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Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?
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I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.
