T. D. Jakes Quotes
Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school elections - how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
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Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
