Brenda Shoshanna Quotes
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.
Quotes to Explore
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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I think human societies tend to be problematic.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.
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One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.
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Pfizer and American Home Products will be manic and poised to lead the group, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck appear to be stick in the middle and Eli Lilly and Schering-Plough will be down in the dumps,
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At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.
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Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.
