N. T. Wright Quotes
I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
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But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.
