Vance Havner Quotes
It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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No one is India.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.
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My season is when I get paid. I'm not sacrificing my body or taking a chance on injury for something that is made up. A lot of guys feel that way. They won't say it, but I will.
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The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
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My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.
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It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
