Frederick Buechner Quotes
You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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Acting is in your soul.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I'm very candid.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
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There always will be limits to growth.
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And if it is true that we acquired our knowledge before our birth, and lost it at the moment of birth, but afterward, by the exercise of our senses upon sensible objects, recover the knowledge which we had once before, I suppose that what we call learning will be the recovery of our own knowledge . . . PLATO
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong
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You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
