Ted Dekker Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I'd rather suffer 1000 truths than enjoy 1 lie.
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Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater
