Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.
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It's a different world.
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The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
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Do your best and keep learning - that's what I believe in.
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The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
