Jerry Bridges Quotes
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.
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When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.
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When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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I came to New York in 1948 at 19, after one term at Harvard. Well, Harvard wasn't for me at all.
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Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
