James Redfield Quotes
I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
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O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.
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I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
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I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.
