Francis Schaeffer Quotes
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
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As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.
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I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
