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“As Amma used to say, the good thing about the truth is it’s true, and there’s no arguing with the truth.”

Source: Beautiful Redemption

“As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace.”

Spirit Powerful Grace Violence Holy Doctrine Operations Holy Spirit Subtlety Regeneration

Author:John Owen

Source: The Works of John Owen

“As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.”

Helping Given Loses Ability Love Is Our Lives Ready Praise Acquire Up And Down Given Life

Author:Sharon Salzberg

Source: The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion: Easy Read Comfort Edition

“As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work take me somewhere, manipulate me, and then rough me up a bit. When it comes right down to it, I only want to spend time with work that makes me think and teaches me something while making my body react.”

Thinking Want Feels Should Body Bits Teach Rough Take Me Academic End Times Manipulate Spend Time

Author:Barbara Degenevieve

“As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.”

Lifestyle Academic

Author:Ahmet Davutoglu

“As an accomplished entrepreneur with a history that spans more than fourteen years, Annette Wise is constantly looking for ways to give back to her community. Using enterprising efforts, she qualified for $125,000 in startup funding to develop a specialized residential facility that allows developmentally disabled adults to live in the community after almost a lifetime of living in a state institution. In doing so, she has provided steady employment in her community for the last thirteen years. After dedicating years to her residential facility, Annette began to see clearly the difficulty business owners face in planning for retirement successfully. Searching high and low to find answers, she took control of financial uncertainty and in less than 2 years, she became a Full Life Agent, licensed Registered Representative, Investment Advisor Representative and Limited Principal. Her focus is on building an extensive list of clients that depend on her for smart retirement guidance, thorough college planning, detailed business continuation, and business exit strategies. Clients have come to rely on Annette for insight on tax advantaged savings and retirement options. Annette’s primary goal is to help her clients understand more than just concepts, but to easily understand how money works, the consequences of their decisions and how they work in conjunction with their desires and goal. Ever the curious soul who is always up for a challenge, Annette is routinely resourceful at finding sensible means to a sometimes-challenging end. She believes in infinite possibilities as well as in sharing her knowledge with others. She is the go-to source for “Smart Wealth Solutions.” Among Annette’s proudest accomplishments are her two wonderful sons, Michael III and Matthew. As a single mom, they have been her inspiration and joy. She is forever grateful to the greatest brothers in the world- Andrew and Anthony Wise, for assistance in grooming them into amazing young men.”

Wealth Money Investment Finance Retirement Inheritance Cash Flow Tax Life Insurance Asset Allocation

Author:Annette Wise

“As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.”

World Company Blue Trade Chips Accountants Blue Chips

Author:Marta Andreasen

“As an act of bravery, love cannot be sentimental; as an act of freedom, it must not serve as a pretext for manipulation. It must generate other acts of freedom; otherwise, it is not love.”

Love Freedom Bravery Manipulation Sentimentalism

Author:Paulo Freire

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.”

Sacrifice Future Possibilities Dexter Palmer The Dream Of Perpetual Motion

Author:Dexter Palmer

Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“As an act recedes into the past and becomes imbedded in the network of one’s individuality it seems more and more a product of fate – – inevitable. However, an act in the immediate present seems to be more a product of free will.”

Fate Free Will

Author:Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“As an action, deciding to sacrifice oneself is nothing more than deciding to restore who we are by turning against what we’ve become.”

Giving Action Purpose Sacrifice Calling Give Self Sacrifice Restore

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.”

Trying Action Directors

Author:Donnie Yen

“As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families.”

Needs Jobs Force Air Mines Members Bases Army Active Officers Warfare Air Force Personnel Caucus Enlisted

Author:Allen Boyd

“As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.”

“As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.”

Writing Stories Use Action My Own Clear Finding Yourself Activist My Own Life Textbooks

Author:Gloria Steinem

“As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.”

Long Term Interesting Picks Commitment Activism Things To Do Long Term Activist Shortage

Author:Patrick Califia

“As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not get it. I feel like it's worth the ask.”

Author:Anna Gunn

“As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.”

Way Play Moments Artist Certain Actors Asks Who We Are

Author:Tom Cruise

“As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.”

Jobs Order Actors Forget Crew

Author:Cliff Curtis

“As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.”

People Want Play Actors

Author:Angie Harmon

“As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.”

Assuming

Author:Tim Matheson

“As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.”

People Facts Jobs Actors Hurt Judging Performers Judge Me

Author:Jamie Campbell Bower

“As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.”

People Thinking Persons Whole Together Actors West Whole Life Familiar Territory Associates Sundance

Author:Robert Redford

“As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.”

Actors Mistake Risk Directors

Author:Jean Dujardin

“As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.”

Giving I Can Shows Jobs Actors Performances Productions Best Performance

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.”

Feels Real Light Able Actors Difficult Natural Lines Type Dialogue Unnatural Often Is Screenwriting

Author:John Francis Daley

“As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.”

Running Actors Waiting Luck Always Waiting

Author:Tom Hanks

“As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.”

Knows I Can Character Actors Worst Directors Notes Conviction Smell Worst Things

Author:Matt Smith

“As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.”

Kind School Actors Voice 80s Grad Grad School

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.”

Order Actors Notes Restaurants Living My Life Observing

Author:Cate Blanchett

“As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.”

Thinking Needs May Littles Sometimes Actors Bits Imagination Roles Particular Little Bit Encouragement Producers

Author:Steve Kanaly

“As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.”

Want I Can Actors Scene Shots Quitting

Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.”

People Years Stories Young Used Actors Community Company Youth Theater Prison Seven Clubs London Technique Access Hospitals Estates Units Housing Seven Years Improvisation Offenders

Author:Jenny Downham

“As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of humor, especially when it's unexpected.”

Way Character Actors Speak Bits Enjoy Dialogue Unexpected

Author:Michael Boatman

“As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.”

People Littles Long Character Guy Girl Actors Lines Silent Tall Looking Good Long Lines Sidekicks Silent Movies Good Looking Guys

Author:Curtis Armstrong

“As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl. People tend to not think of themselves as Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis. The leading man is something that they might like to be, but they aren't. The sidekick is somebody that they feel a little closer to, because the sidekick has the same human failings that they do.”

People Thinking Men Long Character Guy Girl Failing Silent Cruise

Author:Curtis Armstrong

“As an actor I'm rather hit and miss, I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't. But this is a nice part.”

Actors Nice Missing

Author:Christopher Walken

“As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.”

Want Film Actors Drama Related

Author:Eric Bana

“As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor.”

Want Might Actors Sense Of Humor Gloomy

Author:Louis Garrel

“As an actor if you're working you're usually in three places, you're either prepping something, you're shooting something, or you're post on something or promoting something.”

Ifs Three Actors Posts Shooting Promoting

Author:Miles Teller

“As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.”

Knows Actors Emotion Teacher Pieces Painting Working It Classroom Revealing

Author:James Franco

“As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?”

Play Guy Actors Taught Theater Who You Are Bad Guys

Author:Denzel Washington

“As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you're like a horse running onto the racetrack.”

Running Actors Capacity Horse

Author:Parker Posey

“As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES."”

Feels Looks Hard Hands Jobs Actors Waiting Like You Motivated Always Waiting Stay Motivated

Author:Benjamin Stone

“As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role.”

Hard Actors Grows Roles Cutting Hair Easier Fake Facial Hair

Author:Chris Pratt

“As an actor it's easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: "Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?" Yet here I am, so I'm lucky.”

Self Enough Actors Easy Lucky Smart Critical Good Enough Looking Good Here I Am

Author:Chris Pine

“As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.”

Play Character Actors Variety

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.”

Shows Actors Opportunity Sides Talent Dramatic Irresistible

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“As an actor on sets, Ive always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.”

Matter Hard Facts Actors Projects Glory Commitment Budgets Crew Unwavering

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.”

Want Feels Humans Actors Human Beings Significant Alternatives End Times Spend Time Wasting Your Time

Author:Ron Perlman

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