Alan Powell Quotes
If your dreams are bigger than your talent, work harder. If your talent is bigger than your dreams, dream bigger.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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I'm very religious.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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The opinions of a convenience sample... may not represent all users.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn't where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, 'Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?' And we actually agreed with that.
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There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
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Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.
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If your dreams are bigger than your talent, work harder. If your talent is bigger than your dreams, dream bigger.
