Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I really hate to write.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked, though I understand it was no easy task.
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A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
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You’re just the boy who cries love then you turn around and run. Yeah, you’re the boy who cries love. You do it just for fun.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
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I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!
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If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.
