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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
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My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.
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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels - we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
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Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated - serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
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No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
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