J. I. Packer Quotes
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.
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I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
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Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
