Earl Nightingale Quotes
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.
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I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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I'm really a big fan of HBO and Showtime shows, so I wouldn't mind being on an edgy show... where I could challenge myself to do gritty stuff - a homeless guy or just some guy with a lot going on who's got problems. It's more fun to do as an actor.
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A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
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I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
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You might say I was a little bit more outspoken... I spoke my mind.
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If you look for problems, you will find problems; if you look for solutions, you will find solutions.
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The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.
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Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.
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Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
