Ma Jaya Quotes
The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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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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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
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I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.
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I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
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Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.
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The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
