Frederick Buechner Quotes
We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I believe that to love ourselves means to extend to those various selves that we have been along the way the same degree of compassion and concern that we would extend to anyone else.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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I'm very loyal to my south fans and the industry there. So, it's hard for me leave all the love, respect, and admiration and shift base here. I'm a Mumbai girl and have lived here for most of my life. At the same time, I've spent 10 years of my life in the South and feel like a south Indian at heart.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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Everything we do from here on out has to be a team effort. If five guys play together on both ends of the court, we can make something positive out of this season.
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Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I believe that to love ourselves means to extend to those various selves that we have been along the way the same degree of compassion and concern that we would extend to anyone else.
