Raul Julia (Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay) Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
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The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.
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All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.
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Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from.
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The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
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We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
