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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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 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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'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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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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Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.
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I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
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Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.
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Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
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The work these brave men and women do is extremely important, not only to our nation but to all the countries that our troops are stationed at around the world. I am grateful to the USO for having us and to all the troops who shared their day with us.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.
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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.
