John Polkinghorne Quotes
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
