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Ron Carlson Quotes

I don't write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge.

Ron Carlson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1947

Topics

Work Hope Teacher Window Walking

Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.

John Lee Hancock

Tired Think Christian Movies Try

If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.

Jeb Bush

Dreams Government World Believe You

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

John Piper

God Faith Satisfied Essence Us

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

Roy Bean

Nature Sun Moon Fall Harvest Golden

There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

Mary H.K. Choi

Focus Practice People Help Way See

I'm dangerously generous.

Mika

Generous Dangerously

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

Michael Morpurgo

Good Me Book Key Good Book Took

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

Nature Heaven Earth Pieces

I'm from the burbs. I've been in the hood, but I don't live there. I have lived in the hood, but I don't live there anymore. I lived in Harlem, and that was crazy, even though Harlem is a lot nicer than it used to be.

Jay Pharoah

Live Crazy Hood Lived Used Been

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

Jason Alexander

Great Talent You Look Television TV

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

Jason Reitman

Environment Circus Why Understand Up

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Dorothy Thompson

Sad End Feeling Too Much Nothing