Jim Elliot Quotes
No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the will of God.
Quotes to Explore
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
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My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.
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I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.
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No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the will of God.
