Eric Metaxas Quotes
As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and 'Atlantic,' among other places.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.
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The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.
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Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
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As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and 'Atlantic,' among other places.
