George Verwer Quotes
We need to learn how to agree to disagree and get on with the basic living out of the Christian life, mobilising people for missions and presenting the gospel to the whole world.
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Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
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I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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'I'm no preacher but I can tell you this-the lives that people lead are driving them crazy and their insanity comes out in the way they drive.'
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I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
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I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.
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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.
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My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.
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Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
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It's the biggest win in my three years here. One of our fortes is wearing people down, and when Pereira went out, our pressure started to get to them.
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I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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It's always good to come back to a place where you have fond memories. It's such a big challenge, with the (lane) patterns, the conditions of the U.S. Open. But it's time for it, I'm ready for it and I'm really looking forward to this week.
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Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
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We need to learn how to agree to disagree and get on with the basic living out of the Christian life, mobilising people for missions and presenting the gospel to the whole world.
