Jay Parini Quotes
I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.
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Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
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Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.
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I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
