Walter Lang Quotes
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
Quotes to Explore
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
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I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
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I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy.
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
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In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
