Merle Shain Quotes
Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
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I'm a good friend.
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E cada instante é diferente, e cadahomem é diferente, e somos todos iguais.
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Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
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'The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.
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Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.
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There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.
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I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
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My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.
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I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
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I've always had difficulties with female characters.
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Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!
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Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same
