"As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice."
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"Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations."
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"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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"The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body."
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"My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him."
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"Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging."
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"This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds."
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"On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive."
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"When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief."
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"To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute."
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"That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection."
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"What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation."
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"Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be."
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"The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage."
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"I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success."
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"And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know."
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"I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved."
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"I have so many children. Half of mine are the ones that just must climb the tree, must climb the mountain, must get dirty, must jump off, flip into the pool sideways because it's just who they are. So you try to give them as much guidance and prepare them but they are who they are."
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"If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director."
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"Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have."
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