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?Idries Shah
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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.
Nathan Fillion -
We care about margins.
Barry Lam -
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.
Ira Glass -
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
Vin Diesel -
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.
Kate McKinnon -
Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
Malachy McCourt
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
Dana Perino -
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.
Daniel Bruhl -
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.
Adam Clayton U2 -
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.'
Adam Clayton U2 -
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.
Nate Parker -
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.
Lara Spencer
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
Taylor Dayne -
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
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.
Calista Flockhart -
The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
Adam Carolla -
I don't know if I'm a method actor.
Caleb Landry Jones -
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
Barbra Streisand
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I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.
Kangana Ranaut -
You have to assign specific tasks to everybody so you don't bump into each other and start arguing about silliness.
Marcus Lemonis -
I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
Walt Mossberg -
Tackling one thing at a time, I have managed better than I would have thought possible.
Irene Dunne -
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?
Idries Shah