Adyashanti Quotes
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.
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I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.
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My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school.
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What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.
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I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.
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Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
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I really love Beyonce. I like to look to her because we look similar; we have similar features about ourselves. So whenever I see that she's using a new product, or a new hair color, I like to look at her. because I know that if it looks good on her, it's something that I could try.
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I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
