BarbaraNeely (Barbara Neely) Quotes
No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.
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I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.
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The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod - and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.
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No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.
