"When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection."
-Debra Messing
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"It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.“
-Debra Messing
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"Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve."
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"I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch."
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"I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!"
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"I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal."
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"I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal."
-Debra Messing
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
-Virginia Woolf
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
-Mother Teresa
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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
-Pythagoras
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
-Lana Del Rey
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
-Marvin Gaye
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Earhart
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