Ursula Nordstrom Quotes
That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?
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The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.
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Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not.
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It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
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The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
