Rumi Quotes
Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.
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There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.
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Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
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For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.
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Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love.
