"Godâ€™s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for Godâ€™s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion."

-- Jonathan Edwards

#Passion Quotes #Two Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.”
“Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.”

Source : "Eurozone crisis live: Brussels hints at austerity rethink as opposition mounts - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.
“I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can see why - we don't have the vocabulary for it. Phrasing is intuitive, and its difficult to articulate when it's on and when it's not.”
“We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.”
“I mean thereâ€™s a certain finality about a movie, when itâ€™s done itâ€™s done â€“ that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that raised eyebrow. Whereas a play only lives as a blueprint for a performance on any given night. Thereâ€™s a reason you can eat popcorn and watch a movie and you canâ€™t do that in the theatre. Theatre you have to lean in, you have to tune your ear to the stage and participateI respond to heat. And blood. And humanity. The cold experience is not for me. Iâ€™ve always enjoyed all the real people in a room together in the theatre.”
“By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing -- which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.”
“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
“Donâ€™t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Donâ€™t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.”

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