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"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
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"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
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"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
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"That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty."
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"You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that."
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"He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."
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"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."
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"We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention."
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"Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings."
Diversity
"Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them."
Time
"The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great."
Work
"To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership."
Leadership
"This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural."
Idea
"Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise."
Life
"Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional."
Language
"I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character."
Dream
"Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable."
Actor
"There are no explanations, there are no answers."
Answers
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