Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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There's a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn't give you all the ingredients you need. No story will quite fulfill that three-act structure.
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I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
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Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.
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But the quality of human beings is only one - and that is how much they love and forgive.
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Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.
