Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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Talent is very hot.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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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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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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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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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.
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How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the narcissistic preoccupation with getting the love we think 'works' for us. The point of love is to make us grow, not to make us immediately happy. Many of us have forsworn the chance for the deepest love in reaching out for the easier one.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
