Francis Spufford Quotes
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish - just in a slightly bigger pond.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
