Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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Not everything was lost in the flow of time.
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Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
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Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
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When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.
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Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere.
