Rumi Quotes
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
Quotes to Explore
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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I'm not a big sports fan.
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?
