C. J. Mahaney Quotes
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew.
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Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.
