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"Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something."
"We make weapons now that, if we ever used them, would kill ourselves. How do you explode a weapon with so much radiation in it that it will wipe out an entire city and think that it's not going to blow over your own cities? We all breathe the same air. It's madness."
"All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you."
"And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them."
"Because you don't belong with him! I tried to tell you that, but you wouldn't listen, and I thought if you understood that he'd be better off without you, you'd break up with him for his own good. So I...exaggerated how easy it'd be for him to get over you, with Sabine there to step in. But I underestimated how incredibly stubborn you are" "I prefer to think of it as dedication..." I mumbled."
"Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?"
"People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a lot that do theater and haven't done a lot of TV/film - that you have so much more control over your work onstage. When you go onstage, you can really see the difference between people who can really do it, and people who are just kind of pretending to do it. There is no editor, there's nothing that's going to stop the actor from showing what they can do unless it's not a well-written role."
"If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over."
"This is a team of gay dudes, isn't it?" What gave it away? The pink shirts, or half our team drooling over you?"
"In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?"
"If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way."
"Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it."
"You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you."
"You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!"
"Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears."
"When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it."
"I've wanted you since the moment you tried to run me over. You are unlike any woman I have met before. You are strong, and courageous, and you do not suffer fools."
"Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you."
"When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side."
"Always make sure your jewelry isn't taking over you or your ensemble and keep everything in proportion to your frame"
