Charles Simeon Quotes
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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A good leader must be fair.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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Julian tried to keep a pleasant smile on his face, though already it felt strained. He was uncomfortable with people who used the word blessed as a part of their everyday speech. The implication was that God was intervening in the minutiae of their lives, hanging around and helping them with their jobs or children or household chores as though He had nothing better to do. Maybe it was true, Julian thought wryly. Maybe that was why there were wars and murders and earthquakes and hurricanes. God was too busy helping real estate agents find new listings to deal with those other issues.
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It's not hard for me to access a bad actor. That's always there. It's actually kind of a load off your mind because, the worse you do, the better it goes.
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(Hawthorne Abendsen) told us about our own world. This, what's around us now. He wants us to see it for what it is. And I do, and more so each moment.
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I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
