William Barrett Quotes
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.
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I called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter. A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.
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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.
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You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
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We originally proposed to build 60 to 80 rooms.
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Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place.
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And if nothing is repeated in the same way, all things are last things.
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People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
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To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
