Johannes Tauler Quotes
May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes.
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The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
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May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood
