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To be humble is to be sane.
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Ram Dass
Spiritual teacher and author
Well, I—I've experienced that the stroke was grace. It was grace, for me, to play, to get inside, grace. I was dependent. These are things that I—those, those were graceful things. You know, pushed. And just go inside, to be—you're a quote "author" and it's a cultural thing, that role, to get into your head. But it's a head game. It's a head game. And I wanted to get down to my spiritual identity. And the stroke placed me at the spiritual identity.
Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
To stand up tall and aim for what you want.
Be generous and kind. Honestly, those two things did everything for me.
Maggie O'Farrell
Irish-British novelist
To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
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An electric-yellow mohair rug.
Not becoming a ballerina.
Annie Lennox - she's a private woman with integrity.
I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.
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