Matthew Stover Quotes
A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world-something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear-is nothing but a cheap hustle.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.
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In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.
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To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
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A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world-something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear-is nothing but a cheap hustle.
