K. P. Yohannan Quotes
We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends: They're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
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Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.
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We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.
