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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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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Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.
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I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.
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I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
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When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surreal. It's like you can't believe you're standing there talking to that person. If you've seen them in a lot of movies or on TV you feel like you know them, just like my fans feel like they know me.
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
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I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
