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"I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in."
"Home Run portrays the church in its beauty--true life transformation through real and honest relationships with one another and with Jesus."
"People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life."
"If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial."
"The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith."
"You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."
"The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible."
"You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together."
"To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature."
"I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy."
"The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis."
"You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity."
"If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for."
"My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it."
"In a real sense faith is total surrender to God ."
"My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are."
"I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads."
"The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly."
"It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison."
"Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self."
