Geoff Zanelli Quotes
In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
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In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
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Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest
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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
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The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.
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Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help.
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I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.
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I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence.
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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.
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Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
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It is important to be in love with love.
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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
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In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.
