Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Nothing ever goes away.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
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I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
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I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
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The only thing you ever have is now.
