Ambrose of Optina Quotes
“We must begin with thanksgiving for everything. The beginning of joy is to be content with your situation.”
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.
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You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like. 2
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I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.
