John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I studied Morse code.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.
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What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
