W. T. Purkiser Quotes
Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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Today Satan rules the world. The masses no longer believe in God. And, yes, Satan is in the Vatican.
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Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.
