Gary Smalley Quotes
We can choose how we will participate in relationships, we have no choice about whether we will participate in them.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.
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As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
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I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.
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In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.
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Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
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If you choose to do both acting and directing on a set, than you're admitting that you understand that everyone is in it for the same goal and it's a collaborative experience. You can't really jump into being an actor, and than direct yourself. At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful. If you try to micro-manage and control all of it, than you're probably heading for disaster.
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The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
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Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.
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I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.
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We can choose how we will participate in relationships, we have no choice about whether we will participate in them.
