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'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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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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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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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 now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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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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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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There's so many FM hits that I love. Bob Seger, there's two of his songs that I love. I would probably love more, but I don't sit around listening to Bob Seger records. It's the same thing with Tom Petty; he writes amazing hits, but it's not often that I sit around at home listening to a whole Tom Petty album.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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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.
