Zona Gale Quotes
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
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I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.
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Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
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I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
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I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.
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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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I had plenty of vices growing up.
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I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.
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Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.
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Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
