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Your courage to do what's right has to be greater than your fear of getting hurt
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
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Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.
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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.
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I first read [Wendell Berry] short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.
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Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow
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If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?
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Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
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I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
