Bulleh Shah Quotes
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.
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Education is vital to discern between knowledge and learning.
