Thomas Hood Quotes
Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
Quotes to Explore
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.
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First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.
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No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.
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A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.
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I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
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I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.
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It's pretty hard to tell somebody who won 211 seats the first time out, having started way behind, and then 169 the next time out, that he can't do it a third time against Jean Chrétien, Preston Manning and Audrey McLaughlin. Give me a break.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
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Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
