Adyashanti Quotes
As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.
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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
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Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
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Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.
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There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.
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I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.
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What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
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As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.
