Marianne Williamson Quotes
I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I love cycling.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Writers are so important.
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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.
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I am the most skilled parallel parker the world has ever known.
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In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.
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Put on a sweater and really great sneakers with a big scarf, and you'll look so stylish. For me, they are an everyday essential.
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We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.
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I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.
