Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack) Quotes
When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I just want to do my job.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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I have a bad memory - thank God for that!
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Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed.
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When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.
