Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I'm not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.
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Emotions were never the most important thing when I was at school; it was all about academics and this constant performance of pretending that you're okay and getting on with life.
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'I don't feel like I've re-invented myself, I feel like I've re-discovered who I was.'
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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
