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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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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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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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me.
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Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.
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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.
