Aaron Allston Quotes
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.
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There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.
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I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
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Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?
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If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
