Marianne Williamson Quotes
You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
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I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.
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The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
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I think that at a certain point in our lives we should have to interview our parents.
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You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.
