Lao Tzu Quotes
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
Quotes to Explore
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I want to have a long career.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
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I think the best movie ever made was 'Dumbo.'
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America.
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I always love wearing Vivienne Westwood. Her dresses just seem to fit me perfectly, and she makes dresses for girls with curves - I love that.
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I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
