Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Actors are a race.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
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You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
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The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.
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God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.
