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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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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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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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.
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To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that you recognize their behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning, with form, with mind.
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In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
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I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.
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It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
