Anna Halprin Quotes
I am a cancer survivor…. Cancer is like enlightenment at gunpoint. One must face it and do something.
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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.
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Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
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When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
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I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level.
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You're looking for a lump in a bag of lumps, that can take some time
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
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The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.
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I am a cancer survivor…. Cancer is like enlightenment at gunpoint. One must face it and do something.
