George Eldon Ladd Quotes
The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
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Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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When we add the devaluation of male values to the demonizing of male sexuality, many boys feel like a pervert before they know who they are.
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We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves - outside of Germany.
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More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
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Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head. 7
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.
