Andreï Makine Quotes
The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
Quotes to Explore
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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I'm a political conservative.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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I hear that God has a really bad haircut.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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If they do what missionaries do—study and learn language, become part of culture, proclaim the Good News, be the presence of Christ, and contextualize biblical life and church for that culture—they are missional churches.
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One of the great things about the SEAL teams in particular, and the American military in general, is the tremendous diversity of backgrounds and experience that people bring to their service.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
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The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
