Angelus Silesius Quotes
I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Too clever is dumb.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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I didn't want to use my father's name. I don't think I will ever want to use his influence... Never have I gone around asking people, 'Do you know who I am...' Even if it's to cut a line at the airport.
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My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
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When you listen to a symphony orchestra, and the basses don't - there's no bass part, there's not that much depth. That's why I'm attracted to the instrument, the bass. It brings depth. It's like playing in a rainforest.
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Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
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Everywhere is the tabooed, or the disregarded. The monks of science dwell in smuggeries that are walled away from event-jungles. Or some of them do. Nowadays a good many of them are going native.
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I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.
