Natalie Goldberg Quotes
When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.
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I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.
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I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
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Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.
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My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.
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When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
