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"There are movies where I've walked onto the set and felt, "This is home," and I'm confident in myself and my work, but that was my first experience of live TV. At that stage, Friends was at its unassailable height of popularity and brilliance."
"An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash."
"A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible."
"Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home."
"If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker."
"The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged."
"Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion."
"No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism."
"Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in the community, in the heart of the community, at the nucleus of the film community in a really committed way for about a six-month period of time. Having a child requires you to nest, to be in your home, and to create and make your home and environment that is one that is potentially very welcoming and nurturing for a child."
"I think in some ways, I would go back home, and I didn't really quite fit in and couldn't - didn't have a person to bounce those experiences off of. So I felt a little bit trapped within me, and it made me feel lonely because I really couldn't - the things that were exciting to me, I couldn't really share those with another kid and that other kid understand that."
"Life is going forth; death is returning home."
"I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to."
"Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea."
"I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents."
"The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting."
"I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try."
"Virtually the second I get home, I change into my "home" clothes - yoga pants and a T-shirt."
"He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler."
"I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes."
"I was risking a very promising and lucrative future in the business world that I was all set up to receive. I stepped out completely on faith. But when I engaged with an audience for the first time, I was right at home. I felt safe, and all of my senses worked together with a certain elegance. I understood flow in the most profound way. I knew then that I had to follow my heart."
