Vernon Howard Quotes
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
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I only cook when I'm in love.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures.
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Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible.
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I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.
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There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
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I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
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Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
