Basil Pennington Quotes
The pilgrims continue to come. Only God knows what each one of us brings, and with what kind of heart. We come mystically to this cave. We know the mess we bring and the often distracted heart that brings it. But this is all we have--all we are. One stretches out his arms to receive.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.
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An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.
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Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams - Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.
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Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.
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Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.
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From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
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We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
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It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.
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Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.
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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
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People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.
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I love what I do.
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I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
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I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.
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The pilgrims continue to come. Only God knows what each one of us brings, and with what kind of heart. We come mystically to this cave. We know the mess we bring and the often distracted heart that brings it. But this is all we have--all we are. One stretches out his arms to receive.
