Richard Paul Evans Quotes
I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
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When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.
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There is no conservative party in Washington. There is a Democratic Party of tax-and-spend and a Republican Party of guns and butter and tax cuts, too. Washington is all accelerator, the brakes are gone.
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There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.
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I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.
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Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
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I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.
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Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
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People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.
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It's good to make people laugh.
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The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.
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Father of four. I like the sound of that.
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I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
