N. T. Wright Quotes
I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
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How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.
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I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.
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To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.
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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
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I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.
