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Jim Elliot Quotes

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1927 - January 8, 1956

Topics

China Going Percent Wool Our

Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.

Woods House Down Nice Run Used

If you can keep a character fresh and alive for, let's say, six months, working eight nights a week, then you can do anything. You have honed your technique and your skills to such a degree by that point that you are ready to take on all kinds of challenges.

Character Challenges Week You Ready

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

Child Parents You Back Way Try

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

Reality Actor Shark Stage Opposite

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean de La Fontaine

Friend Dangerous Enemy Nothing More

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Tommy Lee Jones

Patriotism Movies Seriously Nothing

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

Me Influence You Nashville Structure

I watched 'Kill Bill,' like, three times.

Three Like Watched Times Bill

Imaginative writing, to me, is a way of discovering who we are and what we have to contend with; discovering what is out there and also what is not there. It enables me to think and explore and make something new with language while trying to make sense of our lives.

Romesh Gunesekera

Me Writing Think Language Trying

If you don't take risks, you won't be able to do anything. I was confident I could use my experience to change and improve the way Macau worked.

Change Experience Risks Confident

Let some people get rich first.

People Rich Some People First Get

If you believe that movies are alive and talking back to you, there's a point at which it's very obvious they're not finished.

Believe Talking You Back Alive Very

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