Melody Beattie Quotes
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
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'That man is … odd,' I dared say to William.'He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.'
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Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
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Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
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That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the idea that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean if you do anything enough, if you keep putting effort in, eventually something will happen, with or without you. You don't have to have faith when you start out, you just have to dedicate yourself to practice as if you have it.
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Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
