Bun B (Bernard James Freeman) Quotes
I don't think Jennifer Lawrence deserves to be in this category leading role? Joy is a great movie, obviously. She's a great actress and I don't want to take anything from her, but it ain't American Hustle.
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!
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Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.
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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
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The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.
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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
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The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
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I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.
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I don't think Jennifer Lawrence deserves to be in this category leading role? Joy is a great movie, obviously. She's a great actress and I don't want to take anything from her, but it ain't American Hustle.
