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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Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
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Life is too short to be a boring company.
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My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
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When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
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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.
