Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I love anything to do with history.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
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For me, horror movies are a real escape.
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Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.
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Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.
