Gabrielle Bernstein Quotes
When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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In this business, you're dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I'm over getting torn up about that.
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In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone.
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I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.
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When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.
