Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
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'It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.' -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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To expose the hardships experienced by children who are deprived of the right to attend school, Camfed has produced a series of films about educational exclusion. 'Every Child Belongs in School' provides a glimpse into the lives of children who have been forced by poverty to leave school at a very young age and take a difficult life path.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
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The kinds of things I want don't cost money.
