Marilynne Robinson Quotes
I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Europe can be saved.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel.
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My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
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I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.
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As a director, you try to find what is creative.
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I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
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I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.
