Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.
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You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.
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Translation: The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.
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Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.
