Etel Adnan Quotes
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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When the prophets conceived Jehovah as the special vindicator of these voiceless classes it was another way of saying that it is the chief duty in religious morality to stand for the rights of the helpless.
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When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.
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No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
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I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
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All great players want to be the reason the team wins.
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I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
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Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
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Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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I am the opposite of boring, but I'm a little reckless, and I'm not against taking risks, and I think I'm always down for an adventure.
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I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
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Do the work. Create the character, don't wing it and don't hope for an award or the Red Carpet. At the end of day the people who stay in the line the longest are the people who are good.
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Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.
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I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.
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