Mary Astell Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.
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Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force. If we will but try this way, we will be able to change these conditions and yet at the same time win the hearts and souls of those who have kept these conditions alive a way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth, as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi. There is another way.
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I think that as my kids grow up and hit milestones that spark emotion for myself in my own history, it will always trigger personal feelings from those times - whether good or bad - and I definitely want to develop the tools I need to keep the immediacy of those negative emotions in the past.
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
