Khalil Gibran Quotes
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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My education was very tough.
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I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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I am not a good cue card reader.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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I guess there are people who are like, 'Here's one thing, and I'm gonna do it,' but I can't. I don't have the capacity to have that singular focus. I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.
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I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
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I think people desperately want to feel love.
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America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.
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Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust. We don’t lust after very many things in life. We don’t need words like ‘worklust’ or ‘homemakinglust.’ But travel? The essayist Anatole Broyard put it perfectly: ‘Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live… in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.’
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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
