Max de Pree Quotes
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Quotes to Explore
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Doing something out of town is so beautiful because it really becomes about the process, and the product will be a result of it, but process is what is the goal - to really see what works and create the best story possible.
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No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying 'Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?' 'Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?' 'Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?'
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Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
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God loves you as though you are the only person in the world, and He loves everyone the way He loves you.
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I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.
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We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
