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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Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
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It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.
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My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
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I have to drive to Wilburton three times a week. There's no telling how much gas money we spend.
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Centering Prayer is an opening, a response, a putting aside of all the debris that stands in the way of our being totally present to the present Lord, so that He can be present to us. It is a laying aside of thoughts, so that the heart can attend immediately to Him. All prayer is a response. The Lord first knocks, beckons, calls to us.
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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.
