Evelyn Underhill Quotes
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.
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Let's treat this country first and foremost.
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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
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'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,' said Jefferson, 'it expects what never was and never will be.'
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I love Tom Cruise. I've been a Tom Cruise fan for a long time.
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You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
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I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
