Idries Shah Quotes
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Good material is good material.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
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There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
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Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them.
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Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
