Marianne Williamson Quotes
Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
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I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
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There are two ways in which we may attain control over our activity. The first is confidence in the power of our own will; to know that if we have failed today, tomorrow we will not do so. The second is to have our eyes wide open, and to watch keenly our activity in all aspects of life. It is in the dark that we fall, but in the light we can see where we are going.
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Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!
