Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.
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My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.
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Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!
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When we make a habit of prayer, we stay constantly tuned to God's presence and open to receive his blessings.
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To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
