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I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
Mary Augusta Ward
Tags: Religion Out Life
The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
Janet Suzman
Tags: You People Life
By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.
Ellen G. White
Tags: Life Through Live
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Henry David Thoreau
Tags: Our Them Any
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I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.


Bob Newhart
Tags: Time Me Up
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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.


Julia Cameron
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.


Dave Barry
Tags: French Fat Bag
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
Tags: You Well Yourself
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.


Robert Burns
If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.
Tracy Morgan
Tags: People Life Thing
There are a few images in 'Exorcist 3' that scared me - people crawling on ceilings, etc. - but nothing beats the original. Even the book scared me to death.
Christine Elise
Tags: Death People Me
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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.


Kazuo Ishiguro
Tags: Like World Now
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.


Daniel Day-Lewis
Tags: Me Period Shoot
You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity - I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.
Nina Garcia
Tags: You People Think
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.


Oscar Wilde
Tags: Hope Will Last
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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.


Leo Burnett
With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
Valerie Cruz
Tags: Me Had Never
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
Sergio Aragones
Tags: Humor Very Even
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This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.


Joseph Brodsky