David Gus Bell (Buddy Bell) Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.
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I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.
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I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
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Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
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Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
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To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.
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Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.
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I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
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I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.
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As a Christian, Israel has a very special place in my heart. There's no question about that. I grew up with a Bible, and the back of the Bible has all these pictures of Israel in it. And so all these locations are incredibly significant to me personally in my faith.
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Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
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We're looking for people who want to be part of something bigger. We don't want people who see us as a stepping stone.
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Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.
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It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain
