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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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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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Not knowing what one is looking for is pure agony. Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic? I think I may need to break away from analytical thinking; this is the cause of all my anxieties.
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Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.
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Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.
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There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.
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Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.
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When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.
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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.
