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I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.


Marianne Faithfull

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ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of o...
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EMILY MEADE I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good...
BRANDY NORWOOD I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now...
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PETER CAPALDI I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.
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IAN MCKELLEN I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any mea...
EMMA STONE I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and betwe...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.
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FRANKA POTENTE I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but dist...
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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuin...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pu...
MARIANNE MOORE I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it...
MARIANNE MOORE Superior people never make long visits
MARIANNE MOORE You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief
MARIANNE MOORE The spiritual path -- is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; mo...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond mea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cros...
MARIANNE MOORE The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I a...
MARIANNE MOORE Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time
MARIANNE MOORE There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes ...
MARIANNE MOORE We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism sh...
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