S. J. Watson Quotes
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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I'm not cynical.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.
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There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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'Blithe Spirit' is played almost all over Britain somewhere at all times because it is such a unique and ridiculously funny show. But it's also, in fact, under those layers of humor, a very serious show. It's quite misogynistic.
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What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
