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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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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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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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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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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I burned down my dorm room freshman year. I was that kid. When you live in small quarters with two guys, the smell in the room starts to take over a little bit. So we decided we wanted our room to smell like fresh baked cookies. So we order a cookie-dough-scented candle off eBay, and then we accidentally burn our room down with that candle.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
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I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.
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In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
