Evan Glodell Quotes
When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.
Quotes to Explore
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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You have to like the characters you play.
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I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype.
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For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of sewing is ending. Now is a time for rending, not for the sake of disengaging from culture or retreating from the public square, but so that our salt does not lose its savor.
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When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.
