Mattie Stepanek Quotes
I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me.
 
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	I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.   
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	Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.   
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	I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.   
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	In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.   
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	I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.   
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	For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.   
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	As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.   
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	Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.   
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	If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.   
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	Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.   
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	Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.   
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	Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.   
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	I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.   
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	Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.   
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	I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.   
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	I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.   
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	Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.   
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	If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.   
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	People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.   
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	We view films in the context of darkness. We sit in darkness and watch an illuminated world, the world of the screen. This situation is a metaphor for the nature of our own vision. In the very process of seeing, our own skull is like a dark theatre, and the world we see in front of us is in a sense a screen. We watch the world from the dark theatre of our skull. The darker the room, the more luminous the screen.   
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	Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.   
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	'Stomp the Yard' was a great film. It was a great film, great opportunity. It's the reason I live in Atlanta to this day, that film. But as far as acting goes, it wasn't very challenging. I played me.   
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	I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.   
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	I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					