Rumi Quotes
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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All I can say to the younger theorists is: don’t trust anyone over 45, except maybe me, and I’m not so sure about me.'
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.
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Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
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There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
