Marianne Williamson Quotes
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
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People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
