Faith Ford Quotes
One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
Quotes to Explore
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Once a Bond fan, always a Bond fan.
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When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.
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Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.
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I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.
