A. N. Wilson Quotes
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Africa has no future.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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Predictions are preposterous.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
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The next 8 years were spent working in New Haven for Health Systems International, which was lots of fun, but that's another story.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
