Grounded Quotes - Page 14

• The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.

  Debra Dean

  New York, Fall, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

  Jake T. Austin

  Who I Am, Trying, Negative

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

  Grace Gealey

  Spiritual, Practice, Helping

  "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Simple, Comforting

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.

  Jackson Guthy

  Real, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I had a lot of ups and downs. I always said that if I were in a position to give back, I would and I have. As my name became bigger, I started giving. You want to make that connection with people who are less fortunate. It keeps you in touch with reality. When you become a successful individual, and have a thousand tasks going on, you forget that there are people in need. It keeps me grounded.

  Shawne Merriman

  Successful, Reality, Names

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• The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope the book helps to do is help people clarify what is amiss, by presenting a critique that is grounded in economics.

  Astra Taylor

  Book, People, Helping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

  Phil Daniels

  Jobs, Thinking

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• Akon is a very talented songwriter to work with. His melodies, they're just insane. It's funny, I think about him a lot when I'm doing my melodies because he's so simple, and he's just been great. He keeps me on my feet, very grounded, but he also puts me on a silver platter, which is always very nice. So it's been an incredible influence. It's like every time you work with somebody that's better that you are, you become greater.

  Lady Gaga

  Nice, Thinking, Simple

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• I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

  Raven-Symone

  Growing Up, Parent, Ends

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• It's a little awkward to know that the world is going to see you and your mom argue about stupid things and watch me get grounded...again.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Mom, Stupid, Awkward

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• . The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends.

  Kimbra

  Humility, Keys, People

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• You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

  Bob Seger

  New York, Fun, Choices

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• My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Dad, Needs

  "Backstage with Miley (Part 2)". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. July 20, 2007.

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• As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by memories. They whisper of fairy tales, poetry, and other lives, as each gesture connects with another and raises yet another from the dead. Shadows flicker on film to an inner melody as I navigate, camera at hand and at the speed of light, through unimaginable worlds - desperately trying to make sense of the joy and suffering before it all disappears.

  Sylvia Plachy

  Memories, Light, Hands

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• My responsibility in the past, when I was sleeping outside every night, was just to survive. My responsibility now is to stay real, stay grounded, and just tell the truth.

  Jimmy Wayne

  Real, Sleep, Responsibility

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Process, Unfinished

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.

  Jon Jones

  Theory Of Evolution, Facts, Alternatives

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• I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

  Emmylou Harris

  Dog, Sleep, Two

  Interview with Stacey D'Erasmo, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2014.

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• The physicality was important to me. Because the film has Shane Black's dialogue, and [Robert] Downey's delivery, and you look at [Jon] Favreau, Don Cheadle and Gwyneth [Paltrow], it is this heightened level with a comedic aspect to it. Everything is grounded in reality, but it plays a little heightened.

  James Badge Dale

  Reality, Play, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• Things that are present - whether it's a conversation with someone who is really grounded in the moment, a movie that feels authentic, or a moment in nature where you feel nothing but the present. It motivates me to truly ground myself, breathe, and push forward. Crashing waves.

  Jonathan Keltz

  Moments, Breathe, Wave

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• Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel. In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Order, Law, Evil

  H. L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.45, Read Books Ltd

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• I wanted to do something that dealt with more of paranormal techniques that wasn't a horror movie. It is an action movie that deals with a special operations group. But if a Tier One team went in to take out Bin Laden today, if you had those kind of abilities, of course you would use that kind of group. And it was more going into that arena. And I wanted to make it feel more like, grounded, as if we had this ability.

  Len Wiseman

  Team, Special, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• I think actors should stay grounded and humble and open.

  Tanc Sade

  Humble, Thinking, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I came into an environment that was already grounded spiritually, so that helped me a lot.

  Frances Newton

  Environment

  "Frances Newton: Faith on Death Row". Interview with Terry Meeuwsen, www.cbn.com.

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