A. N. Wilson Quotes
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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I started out doing musicals.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
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Since high school, I've always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.
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If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.
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True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.
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The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard when they are deciding whether to do the right thing.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
