Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
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You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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Anya: How 'bout you, ever play Shiver Me Timbers?Tara: I'm not really much for the timber.
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.
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The whole world is a man's birthplace.
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I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel.
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The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
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To me, a tax heaven is where everyone pays their fair share. In that respect, I am not quite sure we are in tax heaven yet.
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I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going After Cacciato (by Tim O'Brien) is something I'm very passionate about.
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I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
