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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As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.
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I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.
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Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.
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Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
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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.
