Marianne Williamson Quotes
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.
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I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older.
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
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While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.
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The world is healed one loving thought at a time.
