Gautama Buddha Quotes
Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.
Quotes to Explore
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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I'm a political conservative.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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For that river of red could be the death of me.God, give me strength and keep reminding meThat blood is thicker than water.Oh, but love is thicker than blood.And if blood is thicker than water,Then what are we fighting for?We're all sons and daughtersOf something that means so much more.
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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
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The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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If you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak.
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I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.
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Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.
