Nick Drake Quotes
Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.
Quotes to Explore
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.
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I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
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Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.
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Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.
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I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power – doing things you could never actually do in life – like flying and doing backflips in the air!
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My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
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We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.
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I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
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Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.
