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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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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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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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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Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.
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I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee - I find I can get a lot done that way.
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During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'
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We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.
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All things flow, nothing abides.
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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
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We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
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I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.
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The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.
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The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
