Rumi Quotes
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
Quotes to Explore
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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I don't hold grudges.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.
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I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I'm actually there, it feels weird. I used to go to church and ended the year with a prayer, but now I spend it with people I'm not very familiar with at an award show, and I wonder if it's something I should be doing.
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It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
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I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.
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My attention is constantly being caught! I'm constantly learning, constantly becoming fascinated by new things - I'm lucky that I read incredibly quickly and absorb a lot of information easily, because otherwise I don't think I'd ever get my head out of a book!
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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
