Frederick Buechner Quotes
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.
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My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
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You want to bring it every day. But if you have a bad day in the theatre, a couple of hundred people see it. That sucked; we'll get back to it. You have a bad day on film, it's just on DVD for the rest of your life.
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I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
