Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I like music a lot.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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Tom Ford does everything perfect.
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The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
