Bart Ehrman Quotes
Similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
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Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
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What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.
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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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She gave the most stirring speeches, ... and she was never afraid to ask for money. Once when I was speaking at a rally, she grabbed the mike and told me to be more forceful in my fund-raising pitch. The crowd loved it; I think we raised $90,000 that day.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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Written by a woman automatically is better.
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The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.
