William Stanley Jevons Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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'If you are with God in truth and faith, whatever comes as a blessing or trial will be what God allows. If you are called by God, from beginning to the end, your journey has been documented. Nothing outside your documentary will happen without God’s knowledge.'
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Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?
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It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.
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You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.
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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
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Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.
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but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.
