Deena Metzger Quotes
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
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We didn't know each other before [the film "Killing Reagan"], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].
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I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.
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The more emotion I put in to it the harder I rock.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
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Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
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...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.
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He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
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Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.
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Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.
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Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
