Frederick Buechner Quotes
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of 'Frontline.' David Fanning's mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide 'Frontline's future.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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My life is not perfect.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.
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I did learn that there's no point in eating too much Vitamin C because it comes out of your bladder.
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Is typecasting really a problem?
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Our desire to conserve wildlife for our children and our children's children forces us to bring out into the open conservation's secret question : Does God give a prize for the maximum number of human beings? Put another way, which shall we bequeath to our grandchildren : human life with nature, or human life without nature?
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When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
