Chip Ingram Quotes
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
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After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.
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Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
