Bruce Boxleitner Quotes
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I can only control what I can control.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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I'm learning every day.
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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A famous actor told me once - I don't want to name names, I hate that sort of thing - but I was at his house and he said, 'Are you on Twitter?' I said, 'Yes, I am.' And he said, 'There'll be one day when you'll have, like, five friends. And in the same day it'll go to five thousand.'
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The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.
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I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.
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I wanted more control. Painting was the only way to do it yourself. Movies require too many people. You can have an auteur vision but there’s a lot of money involved. And there’s a lot of people telling you what to do.
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I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
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In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.
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I'm hands-on with everything. I approve the designs of everything we do because that's my brand that people are buying. I want it to look good.
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I get hired because I improvise well.
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A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
