John Flavel Quotes
Alas! that Christians should stand at the door of eternity having more work upon their hands than their time is sufficient for, and yet be filling their heads and hearts with trifles.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.
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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Alas! that Christians should stand at the door of eternity having more work upon their hands than their time is sufficient for, and yet be filling their heads and hearts with trifles.
