Alister E. McGrath Quotes
Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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'Let them scoff as they see fit! I will never compromise what I consider my art, especially for the sake of gain!''For the sake of gain I’d compromise the art of my grandmother,' muttered Zamp under his breath.
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I had sworn to administer justice 'faithfully and impartially.' To do otherwise would be to violate my oath. That meant I had no business of imposing my personal views on the country. Nor did I have the slightest intention of doing so.
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Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.
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And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
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I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.
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Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.
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It's tough being a teenager, man!
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Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.
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This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776 B.C. to 393 A.D., your fellow Olympians laid down their arms to take part in these games. They understood there was more honor in out running a man than in killing him. I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.
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In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
