Peter Brook Quotes
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
Patrick Lencioni
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
Vanessa Hudgens
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
Carice van Houten
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
Gary Bettman
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
Carli Lloyd
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Yakov Smirnoff
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
Rachel Zoe
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
Larry Flynt
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
Barry Manilow
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
Yossi Vardi
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
J. G. Holland
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Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.
Earl Nightingale
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
Hans Jonas
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If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
Harry Browne
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The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.
Peter Brook