Alice Miller Quotes
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
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Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.
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Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.
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Q: Does commercial success matter to you?
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It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
