Brenda Shoshanna Quotes
We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.
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Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
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Dennis Rodman says North Korea is 'not that bad'. Dennis Rodman is deeply stupid.
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Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
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Earlier in my career, fans weren't a big consideration for me.
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We became such darlings of a certain type of media. We became a package; we became easy to sell: these three golden nuggets that could pour out all the goods. It was all exposure in an almost violent way.
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Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.
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Q: Do you feel a need to be distinctive and mass-produced? Q: Are you in the groove? That is, are you moving in ever-diminishing circles? Q: How often do you change your mind, your politics, your clothes? (p. 121-125)
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.
