Joan Halifax Quotes
I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
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I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.
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I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.
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I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.
