Marianne Williamson Quotes
People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.
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After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and do publicity for free just because I like a book. Some people think of it as hubris or careerism, but I love to champion books. You can't use your whole sphere of influence just to help yourself.
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.
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In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.
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People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.
