Edmund Clowney Quotes
He does not only declare that God saves by grace, not works; he brings Christ forward, and placards him. Preaching points to Christ crucified for our sins, and risen for our life.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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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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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
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Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.
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She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.
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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
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He does not only declare that God saves by grace, not works; he brings Christ forward, and placards him. Preaching points to Christ crucified for our sins, and risen for our life.
