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Richard Baxter
"Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church ... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings." --
Source : "A Christian Directory: Or, a Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases of Conscience Directing". Book by Richard Baxter, 1673.
Richard Baxter
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“It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know."”
“Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.”
“Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.”
“Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.”
“I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.”
“I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.”
“If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.”
“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”
Source : Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc