E. Stanley Jones Quotes
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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Social media, for me, is about interacting with people who follow my career. I don't think my relationship has anything to do with my career.
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It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I think that a man should not be shy; you should say what you really think and feel - put it out there.
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Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.
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We grow small trying to be great.
