S. D Gordon Quotes
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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Pilates is great.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances
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Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.
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God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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I never thought I'd say this: what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.
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Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.
