Idries Shah Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I love so many styles of music.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The sweet converse of an innocent mind.
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If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
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For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that. And for me, 'Night Train' was kind of a metaphor for where things have gone, from being on one bus with 12 other guys, pulling a trailer my first few years on the road, to now. We're out here with six or seven buses and eight or nine semis.
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It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
