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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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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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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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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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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Apparently, I hear from people I always play strong women. I don't see them that way.
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People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.
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There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.
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I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.
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There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
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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.
