Jane Roberts Quotes
Suggestion can shape dreams, and the dreams themselves then operate as action. A strong dream can be a more significant psychic action than any physical experience, and it can change the course of the personality completely.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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Virtual reality is a truly immersive medium and the level of graphics, already quite strong, will only continue to get better and better. You really feel like you are someplace else...and what you see, what you experience, it impacts your brain. So there are major implications here, to societal structure, to democracy to the way in which we interact with each other. To the nature of love, to the nature of sexuality.
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But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
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Suggestion can shape dreams, and the dreams themselves then operate as action. A strong dream can be a more significant psychic action than any physical experience, and it can change the course of the personality completely.
