Rumi Quotes
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
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It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
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I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
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These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
