Vance Havner Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
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Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
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We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
