Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.
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I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.
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I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.
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So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
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Sometimes, it takes leaving to gain some perspective. I see that clearly every time I leave Washington, D.C., and return to Indiana. I see the bizarre bubble that seems to enclose the Beltway and makes people forget what regular people care about.
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I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.
