Oswald Chambers Quotes
We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
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We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
