Ishmael Beah Quotes
I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
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Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
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Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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To me, style is consistency.
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
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Woo ah, mercy mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no.Where did all the blue skies go?
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Skryabin comes so close to the twelve-note system that it seems probable he would have taken it as the next logical step.
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Never do I deceive you, Hastings. I only permit you to deceive yourself.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid…
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What is Bresson's genre? He doesn't have one. Bresson is Bresson. He is a genre in himself. Antonioni, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Dovzhenko, Vigo, Mizoguchi, Bunuel - each is identified with himself. The very concept of genre is as cold as the tomb. And is Chaplin - comedy? No: he is Chaplin, pure and simple; a unique phenomenon, never to be repeated.
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If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
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One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
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Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.
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I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
