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!
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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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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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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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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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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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Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.
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You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.
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One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
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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!
