Jay Parini Quotes
A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Pilates is great.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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I never got a chance to be a teenager.
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Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
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If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
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Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).
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I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
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A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.
