William Gurnall Quotes
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.
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Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
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I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.
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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
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All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
