Francis Asbury Quotes
Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.
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Awkwardness gives me great comfort.
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The world's become a little too mean.
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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
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I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.
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You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.
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The good guy doesn't always finish first.
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I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
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A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.
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A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate.
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I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, 'You have to invent it.' When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me.
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Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.
