"If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?"

-- Margaret Atwood

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“The principles that apply to engagement for employees are the same as those that apply to supervisors.”
“I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.”
“I had a lot of trouble accepting God as a human being.”
“There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.”
“I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name”
“You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.”

Source : "Capt. Chesley Sullenberger". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2012.
“At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.”
“Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.”

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