Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.
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I think Alma Reville was the only one Alfred Hitchcock trusted. When it came to issues of taste or what the audience wanted, down to editing, script and casting, he would turn to her first. She was his partner.
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But I'm dying now and done for,What on earth was all the fun for?I am ill and old and terrified and tight.
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The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).
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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.
