Bob Goff Quotes
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
Bob Goff
Quotes to Explore
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
Paddy Considine
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
Sally Field
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
Rachael Ray
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
Ilan Stavans
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
Kal Penn
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garrett Dillahunt
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I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.
Karan Singh Grover
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
Abbi Jacobson
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I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.
Kate Upton
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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
L. Frank Baum
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I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.
Kurt Braunohler
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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
Mary Gaitskill
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I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.
Jason Isaacs
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I exercise every day. It's what makes me happy.
Andie MacDowell
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Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
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I think to get Simon Cowell out of his comfort zone would be rather interesting. I don't know what I would make him do.
Keith Barry
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Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.
Dawn French
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Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
D. H. Lawrence
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I've learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.
Taya Kyle
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We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.
J. I. Packer
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Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.
Scott McCloud
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
Bob Goff
