P. D. James Quotes
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.
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If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.
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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive.
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Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
