Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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Money and good life had never been my goal.
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Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing, we have begun, at last, to understand.
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The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
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Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.
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Where is your country? he said.I don't know, said John Grady. I don't know where it is. I don't know what happens to country.
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A condition of youth, your own importance. The mark you'd make upon the world. But a man learns sooner or later. You take your little niche and make it your own. You ride out the time as best you can.
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You are the most important thing in your life. Put yourself at the center of your life.
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There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
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Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
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It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
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I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'
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If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!
