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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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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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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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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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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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.
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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
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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?
