Andrew van der Bijl Quotes
If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Man differs from woman in size, bodily strength, hairyness, &c., as well as in mind, in the same manner as do the two sexes of many mammals.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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Well, I'm not talkin' bout locking down forever, baby.That would be too demanding.I'm just talkin' bout two lonely peopleWho might reach a little understanding.I'm not talkin' bout knocking out heavenwith whether we're wrong or we're right.I'm not talkin' bout hooking up and hanging out,I'm just talkin' bout tonight.
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Bella...plus quam civilia.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.
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We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.
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You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
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I really do enjoy everything I do. I just do so much.
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People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.
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If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
