R. Kent Hughes Quotes
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
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My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.
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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
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I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
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The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
