Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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Honestly, being a store manager was the best job I ever had.
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The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
