"The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same."

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Source : David Bentley Hart (2013). “The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss”, p.80, Yale University Press

David Bentley Hart

#World Quotes #Accounts Quotes

“Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.”
“I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.”
“When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your work because you're trying to think about the person you're acting with and you've got 20 other lenses taking pictures of you at the same time, and it throws you.”
“Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.”
“Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”
“I don't know anything about you, so when you randomly come up and grab my ass, this isn't a friend doing it. It's like, "Who the f### is doing...? I was not expecting that."”
“I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.”
“People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.”

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