Melody Carlson Quotes
Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.
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Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
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I can't seem to write young enough anymore.
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Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.
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When you are Uber, what we care about is the customer experience of getting somebody safely, cheaply, efficiently and reliably from where they are to where they want to go.
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
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Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.
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Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.
