A Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer
Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
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This is just the way it goes: there's always a cycle with music - it goes up and it goes down, it goes risque and it goes back, it goes loud then it goes soft, then it goes rock and it goes pop.
The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.
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When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.
I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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It's amazing, the amount of detail and thought that goes into just an average day. Between the things you see on the news, or on the subway, or whatever, it all gets in there. You sort of shut most of it out, but it all goes in.
This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.
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