Renata Adler Quotes
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
Olympia Dukakis -
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
Larry Bird -
I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
T. Boone Pickens -
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
Jack Kevorkian -
I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
Yami Gautam -
I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
Ted Danson
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I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.
Valerie June -
The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
Yoko Ono -
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Barack Obama -
You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
Octavia E. Butler -
On reason build resolve,that column of true majesty in man.
Edward Young
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‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’
Agatha Christie -
O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus -
I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.
Donna Leon -
We're real fortunate to have such a unique cast.
Christopher Meloni -
I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just go with it. It's much easier to let the Muse drive than for me to try to steer.
Lori Foster -
It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
Dennis Banks
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Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf -
The snail had been a true mentor; its tiny existence had sustained me. Late one winter night I wrote in my journal: A last look at the stars and then to sleep. Lots to do at whatever pace I can go. I must remember the snail. Always remember the snail.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey -
Being a fatherIs quite a bother,But I like it, rather.
Ogden Nash -
From wrestling, I learned that I was capable of much more than I thought I was.
Eddie Alvarez -
I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
Daniel Barber -
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Renata Adler