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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Convinced Love Ourselves Hate
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

About Bite Children Denying
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Inferred Man Mistress Weaknesses
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Someone Occupies Official position
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At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

About Admit Also Always
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Most people Disbelief Founded Blind belief
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Attendance Bed Belief Brain
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Everywhere Greater part Human wisdom
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Became Dark Father Filter
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For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Believed Bones Broken Caused
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists

Gift Employing Vicissitudes Life
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Delight Understand Abstract System
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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Become Becomes Birth Bone
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Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

Afraid Aggressive Along Because
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One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

Avoid Blame Call Own
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Habit Friction Mind Gliding over
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There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Babies Down Embracing Going
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'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

Amazing Game GameOfThrones HBO
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Blocks Everyone Experience Expression
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Know Our weakness Cease Any harm
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I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

About Acceptance Degree Everything
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Life Required Bestow Superficial glance
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I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Actor Corner Fun IThink
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Man Masterpiece Creation Believe
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Noble Simplicity Works Nature
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Take back stuff Bush Cloud
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

About Amazing Awesome Being
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

People Necessary Millions Die
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Man God Passion
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Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently.

Great innovation Happens Afraid Differently
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

Could Designer Fake Fashion
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I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Realize Undertaking Opposition
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Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

Blindly follow Guidance Instructions
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I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.

Cable Channel Channels Could
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I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I.

Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Actually Am
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Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

College Everyone False Gives
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

About Back Blowing Bringing
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I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
Abandoned Lived Never Railroad
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

Because Control Could Creative
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Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

Being Character Get IThink
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Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

Absolutely Child Creatively Done
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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

About Actor Anything Control
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Alive Angles Come Create
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I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

Am Because Classified Feels
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I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

Able Actor Admire Camera
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Deaf Hearing Helped Invent
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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Born Mouth Plastic Spoon
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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
Anger Around Blanket Me
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