Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
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I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.
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Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
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Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.
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There are many brilliant actors, including our own Dilip Kumar, but Robert de Niro is something else.
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Time is what you have left.. ..you just march with it and use it the best you can.
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I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.
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Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.
