James Redfield Quotes
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in.
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Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
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I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
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I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
