Marianne Williamson Quotes
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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I am just one human being.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
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The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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I love hard work. 'One Man, Two Guvnors' was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.
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A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.
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All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
