Richard Powers Quotes
If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?
Quotes to Explore
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
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I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?
