William Gurnall Quotes
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
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I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there.
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Feminism is alienating women from their own bodies … because they don’t understand that they have something that men want, okay? So they’re encouraged to interpret all male lust as oppressive and victimizing and negative, instead of seeing that it is up to them to husband this flame. They have a flame, and it’s enormously powerful…
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
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He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
