Frederick Buechner Quotes
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence.
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My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
