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"I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing."
"I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!"
"Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages."
"... the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you."
"I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me."
"Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us."
"Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you."
"It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you."
"With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily."
"No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now."
"My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own."
"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask."
"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
"Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy."
"I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return."
"I find that as we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works. It's as if little miracles are everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our relationships become much more fulfilling, and we begin to express ourselves in creatively fulfilling ways. All this seems to happen without even trying."
"Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow."
"Regardless of what other stigmas may be involved, I think we have to do this because the world of medicine is trying to do the exact same thing and figure it out and they're coming to some conclusions."
"When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it."
"I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious."
