Maria Shriver Quotes
I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.
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Put on your bikini, put on whatever you want to wear, and don't worry about what other people are saying.
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Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age... Humour is universal.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.
