Craig S. Keener Quotes
Is Western Christianity genuinely different enough from our cultures to delay God’s judgment on our societies?
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
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Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love
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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.
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Is Western Christianity genuinely different enough from our cultures to delay God’s judgment on our societies?
