Rumi Quotes
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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I'm like the Bionic Man.
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The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.
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The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries.
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Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
