"If you really want everything, then give up everything."
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"Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven."
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"Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune."
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"Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue."
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"Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure."
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"Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people."
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"The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries."
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"In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all.""
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"Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed. Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that's she's been imprisoned all her life? Time to set her loose on the world. I'm so happy she exists. Set me free Mary!"
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"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes. Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."
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"But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood." - Legolas"
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"Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye!"
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"I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients."
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"It's always great when you're able to give fans what they expect and even a little more."
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"You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor."
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"The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind."
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"We don't do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it's nice, but it's not something you should dwell on."
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"We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want."
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"I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props."
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"There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons."
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