"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction."

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Leslie Fiedler

“I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.”
“Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.”
“Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.”

Source : "Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.
“I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings.”
“An actors' tribute to me is in his work.”
“It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.”

Source : Naomi Ragen (2001). “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes”, p.69, St. Martin's Griffin
“The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of Godâ€™s gifts!”
“Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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