Adyashanti Quotes
We end up putting so much attention onto our image that we remain in a continuous state of protecting or improving our image in order to control how others see us.
Quotes to Explore
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
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I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.
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A painting that is well composed is half finished.
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One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
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There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
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When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.
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We end up putting so much attention onto our image that we remain in a continuous state of protecting or improving our image in order to control how others see us.
