Etty Hillesum Quotes
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
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I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.
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Yeah, I like to gamble.
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Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
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You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
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I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.
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I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.
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I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.
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My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
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I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The Last Five Years. It's amazing how things come full-circle and how the community (once you hang around it long enough) grows smaller and smaller as it grows. Sharing the stage with these people is more than a dream come true it's so special. They're so warm and giving and offer the best advice. Sherie is very nice and maternal and nurturing.
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The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
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I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.
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I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.
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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
