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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In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.
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In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
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I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.
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I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.
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We all have times that we get off center.
