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People become what they expect themselves to become
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
Don't follow me into the madness of the world, just accompany me within my own!"~Kateland Black-2011~
There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.
By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.
If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations
It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.
When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of ...
Clary knew what he was going to say next before he said it. That weapon. I want it.
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
To me, life is about creating memories. The regular days kind of just blend in. You have to create special times so that you will ...
A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare ...
I love being able to create characters, give them problems, and make sure everything turns out right in the end. Writing gives me limitless opportunity ...
Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.
The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; ...
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my dayuntil I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer ...
Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.
What's on your mind?" "Tryin' to figure out how to fuck you while you're wearin' these panties," he answered.
Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't ...
He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-"You'd do that ...
Wowie zowie, love me do. Wowie zowie, and I'll love you, too.
Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the ...
I'm not wearing this!" I shouted."Wear it or die," Mom shouted back.
Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.
It seem like he was training for the Olympics and I was the gold medal. No one had ever acted like I was the gold ...
I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the ...
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
If I have to hear one more story about what great fun it was working with you 'back in the city,' which I assume he ...
You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.
And my father is dead. She did not speak the words aloud, but the reality of them cut her again, deeper and sharper. It seemed ...
There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des ...
It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary ...
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and ...
Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything ...
Power, power, power: how could the world be organized around the struggle for a thing so lonely and oppressive in the having of it?
Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.
Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be
It was also the year that ushered in the birth of a soul who was to grow up in a Maharashtrian home as a rabid ...
My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him ...
Our promise was to deliver value before profit, ...
If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our ...
Reagan was sitting at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?
You're the reason I breathe, I can't turn it off." I slid my mouth across her cheek. "I think of nothing but you. All day. ...
For a moment, he rested his hand on the pitchfork, breath ragged. Strands of hair escaped the ponytail and fell over his eyes, making him ...
Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so ...
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.
Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
Why did you attack some girl's boots?"J.Lo looked incredulous. "She is still mad about this?" he huffed. "I TOLD her-I THOUGHT they were ANKLEwolves.""Okay, whatever. ...
I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi ...
Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing.Art is for expressing your visionary being.Words are tools for exploring & celebrating.Time is a pool ...
Utterly, irrevocably, lost
Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was ...
In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell ...
My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn ...
In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.
While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to ...
Towns aren't even towns anymore," Vicki said, sensing my distraction with this sad evolution, and giving me a hug around my middle. "Dallas wasn't ever ...
I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, ...
Back in the early days of international, everybody wanted to customize the menu for every place.
When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to ...
Some birthdays make you happy.Some birthdays bring you down.Some birthdays make you jump for joyWhile others paint a frown.Regardless of your feelingsOr if you're far ...
I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.
I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end ...
A jacketless Murdoch resumes his quiz, brushing off the assault as 'an overexcited autograph-hunter wanting to have his shaving foam signed.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.
He'd live on land and eat cheesecake for the rest of his life before that happened.
I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to ...
When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just ...
I could really underachieve if I just applied myself.
Republicans can't run for office without the support of business.
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
Visit an elf outpost and you practically hear the banjos in the background.
I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their ...
I am convinced that ... in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
You slept with my sister.""Get over it. You could either fight with me over it or help me fight for her. She deserves some good ...
If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing. Be intuitive enough ...
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.
I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will ... I have come to peace with ...
Shia phobia or Sunni phobia ... we never hear about this. They murder each other!
Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international ...
You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy.
The soul wants a body so it can kick up its heels. The soul wants a wide, wide skirt to wear while it swings and ...
I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty ...
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them
I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. And also ...
When everyone's kind of watching you when you're out and about, it makes it hard.
We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
Quite like old times,' the room says.
Love can be the most enthralling of demons. 3