Oswald Chambers Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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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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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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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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In life go straight and turn right.
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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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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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There's always somebody you can call and go have lunch with and just talk out an idea. And it's great, because I need that. It's part of my writing process, to early on sit people down and say, 'Alright, this film I'm working on...' and I tell them everything I have.
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Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
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In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
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As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.
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Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
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Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.
