H. W. L. Poonja Quotes
If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
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'War and Peace' is about relationships: family relationships, loving relationships, relationships at war... it's a really young story as well.
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Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
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If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!
