James Clavell Quotes
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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You see, even the inhuman ones were not always inhuman. This was a lesson that I would learn again and again—how completely unpredictable individuals could be when it came to personal morality.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.
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I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.
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To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
