Francis Schaeffer Quotes
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.
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Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!
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If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.