Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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I'm an emotional person.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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I know for an actual fact that the things I say or that my brothers say on the mic are valid for life. What we say, if you're smart you get it, if you're stupid, you learn about 3 years later.
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Love is the strongest force in the world.
