William Gurnall Quotes
Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I love action movies.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
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No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
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I have neither time to live nor to write. I am therefore cheating my art by stealing a few evening hours to write this most inadequate and negligent reply to the courteous and elegant letters of yours.
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The silent annexation is ongoing. The Democratic Progressive Party’s loss of power might be tolerable, but the loss of sovereignty in our time would be an irreversible mistake that would jeopardize future generations.
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It's not partisan, ... I don't think education can be a partisan issue if we're going to be successful. Partisan politics in this country can get things stuck. It needs to be what can we do for the next generation of kids. And what do they need.
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Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.
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Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?
