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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When I feel that burden of representation in public spaces, it helps to recognize that it's a duty - a job, really. As with any job that you want to do well, you have to ensure that first and foremost you are energized and in the right head space to take on that task.
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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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I am rejoiced at my fate. I had rather be in my present situation than to be elected to a seat in congress for life. I am in great hopes of making a fortune for myself and family. I hope you will do the best you can and I will do the same. Do not be uneasy about me for I am with my friends.
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I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.
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One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.