Mike Yaconelli Quotes
I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
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I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
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I'm doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.
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Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
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I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
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It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.
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It's definitely longer than the buzz cut you see most of the time in the federal government. I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.
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Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.
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I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.
