John Calvin Quotes
God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
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'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest?
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I might revisit - I like the idea of doing something else with [Hunt for the Wilderpeople characters]. But also I get bored of doing the same thing again. I just get bored.
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How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.
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It was a total dream of mine to have my voice on an album with Stevie Nicks.
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Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.
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There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the hours spent driving to different venues as well as watching the game, it took up an enormous chunk of my life. But I'm getting older, and those days are long gone.
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God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.
