Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
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I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.
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Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.
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Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
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Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?
