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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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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I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.
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I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.
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The period of strikes reflected well on Costa Rica because it showed how we can resolve these disputes peacefully and democratically.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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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.
