Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
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[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.
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You never know what state you're going to be in after giving birth.
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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
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The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.
