John Flavel Quotes
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
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It's only shocking to the uninitiated that 'Teen Vogue' would have the audacity to be political and style-focused.
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There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.
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If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.
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Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.
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Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.
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'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.
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If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.
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How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
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All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.
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I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.
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The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.
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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
