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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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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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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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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.
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I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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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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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I hate being too pretty.
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.
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When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
