Martin Luther Quotes
Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.
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Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.
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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
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My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?
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Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.
