James Redfield Quotes
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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I love the Cannes Film Festival. From the lavish parties and events to the red carpet attire, this star-studded week-long event is where I get a lot of inspiration for hair and fashion.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
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Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
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I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
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I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.
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Academia is a graveyard of poets.
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The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.
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What all the stories and romances don’t say is that happily ever after doesn’t just happen. You have to work at it. You have to keep working at it.
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We all have times that we get off center.
