Frederick William Faber Quotes
If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.
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I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.
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If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
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If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.
