Oliver D. Crisp Quotes
[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.
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I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.
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Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
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I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.
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[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.
