Warren Farrell Quotes
Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. As for radio, I had a wonderful teacher. I was hugely lucky. I didn’t want to play a robot, but the situation was an object lesson in fate taking over.
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We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.
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I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
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I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees.
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When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.
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Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.
