Kelsang Gyatso Quotes
Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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I don't read the critics.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly an art form.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Great artists have no country.
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Formula One cars are very difficult to drive, and we need all of our skills.
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I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.
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Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.
