Richard L. Evans Quotes
Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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I have matured a lot.
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Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.
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My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
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My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
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I never really had them. I always get the eccentric kids who dress funny and sit and write poetry for three months in their bedrooms......I was going to see tons of shows when I was a teenager, so if I was a girl, would that have made me a groupie? If I wanted to shake Thurston Moore's hand or something?
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All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.
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I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
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One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.
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I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
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I think our family motto is to always work hard, be humble, kind, and thoughtful about others around us.
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Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious.
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I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.
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To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.
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“We’re never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.”
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Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.
