Quotes with spontaneity-killer

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  • David Herbert Lawrence America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anais Nin Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Campbell Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Joan Rivers Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Bryan Batt Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Frank Herbert Fear is the mind killer
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Arlen Specter Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Brooke Burke I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
    Interview Oprah november 2000
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bertrand Russell Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
    The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Jean Cocteau Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Barry McGuire That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg The stupidest question I get is 'Is Goldberg your real name?' I tell people, 'No, my real name is Killer, but I wanted a much more menacing name, so I picked Goldberg.'
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Camille Paglia When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Thornton Wilder Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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