D. A. Carson Quotes
God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
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I'm a huge Kevin Youkilis fan.
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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.
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When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature. If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can't keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
