C. Z. Guest Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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You can't just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.
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One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
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You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.
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In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'
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I'm a friend of the children. No one should see them as pitiable subjects. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from children. I can learn transparency from children. They're innocent and straightforward.
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I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
