Nick Nolte (Nicholas King Nolte) Quotes
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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
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Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
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God's gift of forgiveness and eternal life in heaven is absolutely free!
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Only by presupposing God's prior and inconceivable forgiveness can the limitations of human good will be transcended, and only thus can the danger of human pride be avoided.
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I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love. An imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. He pushed me because he loved me, because he wanted no man to ever look down at his offspring. Now with time, rather than bitterness I feel blessing.… My initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness.
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Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
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You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
