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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Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?
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What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they want to express. It's never about you stepping out and showing you can play something fancy.
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I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it.
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Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
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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.
