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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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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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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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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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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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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Knowledge is power.
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Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.
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I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.
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There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.
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I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.
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The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.
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Is Western Christianity genuinely different enough from our cultures to delay God’s judgment on our societies?
