My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.
I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
Everything is whole, complete and perfect as it is. There's nothing "wrong. " Everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be and it's not based on thoughts and logic. It's based on dreaming and feelings and emotions.
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based. . . what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.
I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.
The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.
It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us.
At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.
Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.
That is the good stuff that comes into our life and it's based on the good stuff that goes out of our life!
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
America. . . where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters.
Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
