Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know about. Don't raise your voice just to raise your voice if you have nothing behind it and don't know what you're talking about.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
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I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.
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Television, when you're on the show, it becomes a big, happy family.
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You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.
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Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.
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Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.
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The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
