Rick Moody Quotes
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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I bat righty.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
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My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
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With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
