Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
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A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
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I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.
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Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially because of his simple, clear way of stating things. To read Vonnegut is to learn how to use economy words.
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The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.
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'It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.'
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Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
