N.D. Wilson Quotes
Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
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America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
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It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
