Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
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Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
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I'm a real goof-ball deep down. It's always been my thing to make people like me.
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I long to get back into theater.
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I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
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I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.
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In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.
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What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
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There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
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I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.
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I think it is - the biggest plus the performer can have is to be a little unique.
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Sarcasm doesn't grow on the same stalk as humility.
