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" 1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that. "

Mary Steenburgen

" '1984' is terrifyingly relevant. It generates a political conversation, but it's an exciting piece of theatre. Every day, there are things to be spawned from Orwell's mind, whether it's in England or America, terrorist-related or government-related. "

" 9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them. "

" A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light. "

" A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. "

" A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. "

" Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.' "

" A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. "

" A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on. "

" Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force. "

" A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. "

" A brave mind is always impregnable. "

" A breakup is a state of mind that needs encouragement and needs hopeful, forward thinking. "

" Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. "

" A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind. "

" A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' "

" A CCR Headcleaner show will blow your mind. "

" A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. "

" A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. "

George Matthew Adams

" A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years. "

" A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

" A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

" A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. "

" A closed mind is a dying mind. "

" A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it. "

" A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. "

" A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings. "

" A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever. "

" A contented mind is the best source for trouble. "

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