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“If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Savior used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is, hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ.”
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“If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.”
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“Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.”
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“It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.”
Source : "The Ill-Defined Plot" by John Jeremiah Sullivan, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2014.
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“In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.”
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“I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’”
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“In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.”
Source : "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 10, 2012.