Rumi Quotes
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.
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These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.
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When I adapt a novel, I don’t really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
