Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.
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Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.
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Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.
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This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
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Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
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You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.
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The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
