J. C. Ryle Quotes
Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
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Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.
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I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.
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Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
