"I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office."

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George Washington

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“When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation. But we're living in a world where God doesn't really have an influence, unless it's fundamentalists, so I'll always be an outsider because of my faith. And when you think about it, faith and acting are all about stories, so the two are not mutually exclusive.”

Source : "The eyebrows have it". Sunday Times, www.thetimes.co.uk. March 19, 2006.
“That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.”
“You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.”
“Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.”
“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing
“When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".”
“Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.”
“A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.”

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