J. I. Packer Quotes
If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
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Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
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The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.
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There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries.
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I'd like to go back in time and haunt Robert Louis Stevenson during his years in the South Pacific.
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I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.
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I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other.
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I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.
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You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian
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If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.
