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Olympia Dukakis

"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."

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"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."

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Amber Hurdle

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

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Amber Hurdle

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

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Amber Hurdle

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

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Amber Hurdle

"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."

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Amber Hurdle

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."

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Amber Hurdle

"Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning."

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Amber Hurdle

"The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience."

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Olympia Dukakis
"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you."

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Olympia Dukakis
"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"

Woman

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Olympia Dukakis
"I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do."

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Olympia Dukakis
"I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk."

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Olympia Dukakis
"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."

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Olympia Dukakis
"I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her."

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Olympia Dukakis
"Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth."

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Olympia Dukakis
"The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain."

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Olympia Dukakis
"When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary."

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Olympia Dukakis
"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."

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