J. I. Packer Quotes
Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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I'm really blessed. I love my job. Love going to work. I just love it. I love getting it, I love preparing for it. I love the whole process. I love the whole ritual. I'm really very lucky. Lucky girl.
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Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan of 'Nightmare' loves Robert and you know so that's a challenge when you've got to step in a big man's shoes like that, so it's scary but it's also exciting.
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At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.
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Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.
