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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God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
