Anne Ortlund Quotes
Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you - in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.
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I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.
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My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.
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Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.
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Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you - in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be.
