Carolyn Custis James Quotes
If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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In my beginning is my end.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.
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My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
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That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me.
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All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
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Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.
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When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.
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Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.
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For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.
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...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.
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If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.
