Mind Quotes
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Beauty is momentary in the mind - The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral.
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What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.
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The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.
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I change my mind every five minutes. I'm very brutal with my own process. I throw everything away very quickly, and then I have to go out and rummage through the rubbish in the middle of the night to try to find a bit I'd written a week ago.
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Unborn and imperishable is the original mind. Earth, water, fire and wind — A temporary lodging for the night.
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It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray.
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Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.
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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
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Capitalism is the least romantic conception of a public order that the human mind has ever conceived.
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As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a strong body, you will be deeply served by letting go of those familiar limitations.
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My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.
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I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.
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I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.
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Silence, and then Eve said, "Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.
