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 think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.
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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.
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Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
