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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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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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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I don't usually suggest going into something you cannot do, but sometimes you gotta jump in and land on your feet.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.
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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
