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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Always Brings Difficulties Energy
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Activity Arises Challenge Danger
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Stillness Teaching Vehicles Around
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

God Jesus Realized Son
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

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I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

Acting Been Course Feel
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Alive Aware Become Being
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Arises Around Attention Become
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

Awakening Deeper Emerges Person
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Cope Future Mind Moment
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving

Love Religion Business Family
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Affects Always Annihilation Around
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.
Advantage Everywhere Happens Nigeria
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When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

About Also Being Complex
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

About Before Crime Current
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

Confident Dead Fall Happen
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I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Coming Hard
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You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

Behind Breathing Camera Job
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On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Activities After-School Any Arts
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

Allowed Because Could Hostess
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I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Accent Latin Mean Mexican
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

Chickens Even Farm Fun
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Anything Because Dangerous Evil
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Imagination Intelligence Knowledge Sign
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Rather Strive Success Value
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I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.

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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

About Again Almost Always
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Care Course God Intellect
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

Back Been Every Every Single Time
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Everything Made Possible Simple
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

Always Bad Bad Mood Diet
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
After Appealing Becomes Been
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I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

Girl Happy Limit Push
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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

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I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

Daughter Get Great I Think
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Causes Family Important Involved
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In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Accomplish End Finally Measured
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I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

Afford Care Closing Country
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People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

Time Cards Deal Rid
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Achieves Better Cost Evil
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

About Any Basic Basic Elements
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You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Clicks Else Going Happen
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But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Experiences I Think Life Places
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That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Accidental Almost Beginning Career
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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Bear Beauty Beholder Children
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