Frances Wright Quotes
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.
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All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.
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From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
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When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
