R. D. Laing Quotes
We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on 'his' behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.
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Windsurfers are fitter than sailors. We're so much more kinetic. In some boats, you can literally sit there and smoke your pipe - it's much more civilised!
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I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on 'his' behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.
