Gabrielle Roth Quotes
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
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The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.
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You can never perfect a relationship, and you can never perfect yourself to be in a relationship. You're always going to be changing, and you hope it's for the better.
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No one chair should be isolated.
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Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
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The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.
