Byron Katie Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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The last story: God is everything, God is good.
