Two Worlds Quotes - Page 5

• But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

  Robert Duvall

  Character, Two, Challenges

  "HuffPost Interview: Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek, Get Low". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2010.

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• The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sleep, Doors

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Breeze At Dawn”

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• I love pop and rap. Bringing those two worlds together is always fun.

  Tony Oller

  Fun, Rap, Two

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• We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  War, Mean, Epidemics

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• We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

  Erica Jong

  War, Men, Two

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• Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Real, War

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• The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It has parties. It was not - it was dysfunctional in many ways, but it was not a very repressive regime. Egypt, at one time, was the bellwether of the Arab world, was the trendsetter, created great culture, movies, cinema, you name it.

  Hisham Melhem

  War, Party, Names

  "After Egypt's 'Cosmic' Day, Will Army Usher in Democratic, Civilian Government?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2011.

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• When I was doing just the underwater, I don't think people could relate to it at first. Then I added the land, which was a painting called, Two Worlds. For some reason that particular painting gave people something to hold onto.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Thinking, Land, Two

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• Which is so important, I mean, that's what's so great about the books, is, you know, those two worlds are sort of, the slacker world of just comedy and laziness and then this crazy, over the top action, supernatural world, and you know, combined.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Crazy, Book, Mean

  Source: collider.com

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• Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more burnout than real-world pilots, as they attempt to live in two worlds - home and battlefield - simultaneously. We all become overwhelmed until we learn to distinguish between data flows (like Twitter) that can only be dipped into, and data storage (like books and emails) that can be fully consumed.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Book, Home

  "Present Shock - Rushkoff". www.rushkoff.com.

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• My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'

  Marsha Norman

  Simple, Views, Color

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• There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

  Paul Theroux

  Two, People, Tourists

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Reading, Independent, Two

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• Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dust, Two, Atheism

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• Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Struggle, Live Life, Passion

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• I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

  Mary Antin

  Two, World, Want

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• The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.

  Suze Orman

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Money

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• Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Medicine, Ordinary World, People

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Perfection

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• In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Europe, Two

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• All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

  Gao Xingjian

  War, Moving, Europe

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• I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

  Thomas Mann

  Home, Artist, Two

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.131, Vintage

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• I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Two, People, Different

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.119, Random House

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