Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.
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People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
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When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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'Is it a wicked thing, then?''I should call it a misunderstanding, rather. A misunderstanding of life. Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.'
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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To me, point of view is everything.
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
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Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
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Qui peut vivre infâme est indigne du jour.
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Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.
