E. Lee Spence Quotes
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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I always have stress.
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
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I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.
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I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.
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It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.
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Genius is the ability to look at things simply.
