"Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present."

-- Max Lucado

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“Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.”
“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one”

Source : Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press
“That's all that it's going to be. God bless them. But you know what? I've got a nice house and a kid in college, and I'll tell you, we cannot handle it. Giving our paycheck away when you still worked and earned it? That's just not going to fly.”

Source : "Lee Terry Needs His Salary During Government Shutdown To Pay For His ‘Nice House’" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2013.
“I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare. You can train, and at the end of the day there's an element that's always going to be beyond your control.”

Source : "Nathaniel Fick: 'One Bullet Away'". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 10, 2005.
“In dancing the Alman the young men sometimes steal the damsels from their partners and he who has been robbed seeks to obtain another damsel. But I do not hold with this behaviour because it may lead to quarrels and heart burning.”

Source : Thoinot Arbeau (1967). “Orchesography”, p.127, Courier Corporation
“I think the obstacles are the same as the opportunities, is the way we like to look at them.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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