Daniel Thambyrajah Niles Quotes
Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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People automatically assume that because you're an actor, you're a blank canvas 24/7. But I can't wear what everyone else wears. If I went to an audition, I'd wear what the character would wear, but the moment I'm done with the audition or done filming, I go back into my high-waisteds.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
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Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.
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If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.
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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
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We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.
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In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.
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I'm the wrong person to not be professional around. When someone calls 'action' and we're in the frame together, I'm gonna run you over. You're gonna get eaten alive.
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Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.
