Marianne Williamson Quotes
If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
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Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
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Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
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If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.
