Gautama Buddha Quotes
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People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
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It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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I could pretty much live anywhere in the world as long as I'm with my family.
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If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me as much as anyone else. If I can remain interested in the character, then hopefully the reader will stay interested, too.
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Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
