Orson Pratt Quotes
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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There is no way from us to God - not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way - even of this way - would not be God.
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God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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I am not a normal man.
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When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
