R. A. Torrey Quotes
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.
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So if I can give anyone advice in this business on love and balancing, it's that you truly have to take a second, step back, to figure out who you are and what you want. And it is okay if those people around you don't fit into that. Because what you don't want to do is end up living your life for someone else.
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Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.
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Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
