Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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I adored my father.
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My next baby will be my new record.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.
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On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
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I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
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I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.
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Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.
