Idries Shah Quotes
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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We care about margins.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
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If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
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What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.
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I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now
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'The truth is that the public has done one of those startling and amazing things that they do about once in a hundred years. They’ve seized an idea.''What is it?''That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.'
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If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
