Angelus Silesius Quotes
Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.
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If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
