Craig S. Keener Quotes
An important step in getting to know God is to realize how available he is to us. In learning to hear God, it helps us to take on faith the fact that we are already in his presence. If we must make ourselves worthy of his presence first, we will never get there.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.
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I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.
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'Cause maybe you're loveable.Maybe you're my snowflake.And your eyes turn from green to gray.And in the winter I'll hold you in a cold place.And you should never cut your hair,'Cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder.And you will never knowJust how beautiful you are to me.But maybe I'm just in loveWhen you wake me up.
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For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were.
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An important step in getting to know God is to realize how available he is to us. In learning to hear God, it helps us to take on faith the fact that we are already in his presence. If we must make ourselves worthy of his presence first, we will never get there.
