Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.
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My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
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Big story at the Olympics regarding Michael Phelps. He stepped out with his girlfriend for the first time. She is a 25-year-old model from Los Angeles. Like every other model in L.A., She's dating an older retired guy. What's going on?
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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.
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There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
