Renata Adler Quotes
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I don't really yell at people.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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Music is organized sound.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.
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The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
