Rumi Quotes
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
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There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
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What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.
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One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
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I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.
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Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
