William Bernard Ullathorne Quotes
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.
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The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God.
