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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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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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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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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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 don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch.
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Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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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.
