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 like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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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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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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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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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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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 world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.
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I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.
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I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.
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Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
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I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
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Is Western Christianity genuinely different enough from our cultures to delay God’s judgment on our societies?
