Lao Tzu Quotes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it to be our life, our working life.
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If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science. That will be the science of Christianity.
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Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.
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If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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Peace and quiet govern the world.
