Jerry Bridges Quotes
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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If you quit being cunty, the whole world will stop being against you.
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I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.
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I like to hear about what people do. That's more interesting than talking about what the hell I do.
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At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.
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I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because that was back when they still had territories.
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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
