John Shelby Spong Quotes
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
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However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.
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There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
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Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
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When you have friends in the industry, you're always expected to talk about work. Seldom do you talk about stuff outside work with friends in the industry. Therefore, I don't have many actor friends, but I find lot of brotherly warmth from a few.
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I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
