Alphonsus Liguori Quotes
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.
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He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
