Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
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In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)
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The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie.
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God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.
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I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.
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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.
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To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.
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From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.
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Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
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There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your best. Onstage, I am good. But talking to someone in the grocery store? Forget about it.
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I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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I will never get to Lady Gaga's status. That's not something I want.
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Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.
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I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.
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Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
