Rachel Grace Held (Rachel Held Evans) Quotes
The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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No one person is an island.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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Everybody's watching when you're the quarterback. The other players see how much you want it.
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'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league, by far. It’s like that. With a player like him, he just wants that challenge. He’s just that fierce competitor. He doesn’t want to get out-showed. He’s the one who everybody’s afraid of.
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It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
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The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor
