Philip Yancey Quotes
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
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If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
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Red tape has killed more people than bullets.
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As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
