Deborah Quotes

Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

Aim high, work hard, and love your family.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling

I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

Pink champagne -- that's the kind of life we've both been used to. It might be a little difficult to -- do you like beer?

The truth is, you are your own “special someone,” and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

I destroy the image after I've made it, obliterate it a little so you never have it completely there.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.

The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.

The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.

To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier.