Blase J. Cupich Quotes
We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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When we separate music from life we get art.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
