Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

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Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

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The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

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Attitude determines the altitude of life. — E.F. Schumacher

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