N. T. Wright Quotes
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.
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The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One
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According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now.
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I feel really fortunate that people keep hiring me. People think I have talent.
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I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
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Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.