Olav Thon Quotes
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.
