Allison McAtee Quotes
I've recently started practicing japa meditation. Meditating has always been a bit difficult for me, but japa asks you to focus on the space between things, and psychologically knowing I have anchor points frees me to do so.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
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The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
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A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.
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I've recently started practicing japa meditation. Meditating has always been a bit difficult for me, but japa asks you to focus on the space between things, and psychologically knowing I have anchor points frees me to do so.
