John Keats Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
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I think I suffer from some mild depression.
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The hijab has nothing to do with moral values. A woman's moral values are reflected in her eyes, in the way she talks, and in the way she walks. They put on a hijab and go dancing, wearing high heels and lipstick. They wear tight jeans that show their bellies.
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Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
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That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
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I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
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The stratosphere is my church.
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Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.
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Authors use 'almost' to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome - some might say repulsive, tacky, snub-nosed, too direct - in qualifying anything as definitely a this or a that.
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Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.
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So many, and so many, and such glee.
