Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
Without faith your mind gets fouled. Look at Cervantes. He was a man of faith and nothing fouled Cervantes, not even war and slavery. He wrote the first part of Don Quixote in prison.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.
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I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
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To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
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The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
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Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!
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Most things still remain to be done!
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.
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I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.
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‘…you read mostly menus and the moles on whores’ bellies….’
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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I've always wanted a black girlfriend. Not as a joke, just so when we sixty-nine I can call it Yin-Yanging.
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A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that.
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War is not a thing one wants.
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Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.
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Without faith your mind gets fouled. Look at Cervantes. He was a man of faith and nothing fouled Cervantes, not even war and slavery. He wrote the first part of Don Quixote in prison.
