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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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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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 a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The world is always ending, for someone.
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Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.
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I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
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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.
