Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
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I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
