David Howell Evans (The Edge) Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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They say that that haunting memory-face is modeled from my own, as it was at twenty-five; but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of Attica - HYPNOS.
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Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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I try not to intellectualise what I do.
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I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.
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I am very diplomatic when I'm in front of the media or when I am going out for promotions and stuff. But, usually, I'm a very straight forward person.
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Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — Twenty bridges or twenty two — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.
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I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
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I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.
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Uncertainty and change are life's constraints. And that's the fun part.
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I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.
