Idries Shah Quotes
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.Idries Shah
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
Edgar Wright -
I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
Barbet Schroeder -
The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
Kapil Sibal -
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson -
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
Bebe Moore Campbell -
The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
Kate Winslet
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
Barry Levinson -
I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
Garth Brooks -
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.
Salma Hayek -
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks -
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales -
I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
Sam Heughan
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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.
Ida B. Wells -
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
Dallas Willard -
I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.
J. B. Smoove -
I hate being too pretty.
Rachel Bilson -
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
Wen Jiabao -
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
AJ McLean
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
Nate Diaz -
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
Armistead Maupin -
I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
Jimmy Carr -
When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.
Kenny Rogers -
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
Alban Berg -
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
Idries Shah