Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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We aren't hiding anything, ... We're prepared to completely inform the U.N. secretary-general and world community of how things really stand.
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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
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If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.
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Real faith rejoices in the promise of God as if it saw the deliverance and was enjoying it.
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God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.
