D. T. Suzuki Quotes
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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I don't feel closeted.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.
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I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
