E. Lockhart Quotes
I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.
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I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.
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I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
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Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.
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I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
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I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
