G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their food become the skilled artists of their time.
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New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.
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I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.
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If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.
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Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
