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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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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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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My camping days are over, but I might consider glamping.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusionism that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.
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Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
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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.
