Alex Kendrick Quotes
Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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I don't eat anything on an airplane.
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I don't think I am a very big star on TV.
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The whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.
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I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
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I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.
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Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.
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The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.
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That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it’s like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.
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I believe in manifesting the words that are coming out of my mouth. I'm very careful with what I say because the intention is then out in the universe.
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My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by Virginia Woolf in 1960, but they wouldn't let me write about her. They said she was a trivializer. I also wanted to do a paper on Simone de Beauvoir, and my philosophy teacher said, "Why would you write about the mistress? Write about the master." That was Sartre.
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People love to interact in real time, whether it is with each other or with content.
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Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.
