Gene Saks Quotes
Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.
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We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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We can have no deep, ongoing fellowship with God unless we obey him - totally.
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The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.
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If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.
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Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.
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Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.
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Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately.
