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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Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.
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When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
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Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?
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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.
