Albert Schweitzer Quotes
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.
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Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
