Nelson Searcy Quotes
Keeping a new church outwardly focused from the beginning is much easier than trying to refocus an inwardly concerned church.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
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I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.
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In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.
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Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
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What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.
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I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.
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The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.
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People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.
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Sundance is like a genre.
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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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'UnREAL' has always been provocative and bitingly honest, which makes the show what it is.
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Keeping a new church outwardly focused from the beginning is much easier than trying to refocus an inwardly concerned church.
