"You are not an active creator of the film."

-- Sydney Pollack

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“Your real selfÂ - the I am IÂ - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.”
“Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet.”

Source : Richard Stearns (2014). “Unfinished: Filling the Hole in Our Gospel”, p.78, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the story and to actually tell the story with the unique emotional and narrative powers of music.”
“If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well”
“Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.”

Source : "Renaissance man: an interview with Cheyenne Jackson". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.
“Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.”
“A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.”
“Thereâ€™s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and thereâ€™s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when theyâ€™re not entirely certain theyâ€™re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the Godâ€™s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.”

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