Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.
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How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'
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Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
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What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.
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Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
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Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.
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Growing up, I've always felt I was God's favoured child. Circumstances to help me just happen.
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So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
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I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.
