James G. Frazer Quotes
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I try to do my best.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
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I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.
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Pessimism is a leaden weight around the feet. Defeat is always self-chosen.
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For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.
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The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
