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John Chrysostom Quotes

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

John Chrysostom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality:
Birth: 347 - 407

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Pride Riches Forbidden Them

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Love Time Poetry Me Criticism Play

If I'm with my sons, I want to give them 100 percent. Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

Moment I Am Doing Want Whatever

The first time I came to New York - and the first time I saw the movie 'Paris Is Burning' - I learned about the homeless LGBT culture in New York City that goes back to the '80s. I found that very interesting, and it's definitely something that I care about.

Time Culture New York City Homeless

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.

College Me Looking Matter Been Made

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

Beauty Father Grace Wit Charm Had

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

Family Father Think Environment Nine

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

Michael Merzenich

Power Practice Mind Brain Detail

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

Miranda Richardson

Time Me London Open Grounded Get

I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.

Born Scotland I Was Born Seven Moved

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Lorraine Bracco

Woman You Young Living Denial Where

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.

Myself Challenge Me Impossible View

A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'

Life Good Experience People World

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