Mireille Enos Quotes
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
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But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.
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Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.
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All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
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I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.
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Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.
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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.
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The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.
