Jay Parini Quotes

I have always found the baptism of Jesus, with a dove descending and voice from Heaven, one of the great moments in the Jesus story. This is where Jesus hears the deep call from God.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

Topics

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I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Joanna Lumley

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If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

John Major

GoodTimeMenLongYouLook

I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

Robert Smith

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I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.

Jeff Zucker

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You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.

Amandla Stenberg

YouCareerHappenForceYourOnce

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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Men back up their words. Little boys run away.

Luke Rockhold

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We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.

Louis MacNeice

WorkPushHandsKnowVisualizeUs

Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.

LL Cool J

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'Dance' got on WBLS and over 25 urban AC stations. I never had a record on urban AC and gospel stations before.

Little Louie Vega

DanceNeverOverUrbanGotGospel

At LVMH, we have amazing heritage brands, and we put interesting talents in those brands, sometimes very young, like we did at Givenchy with Riccardo Tisci at the time, or like we just did with J.W. Anderson at Loewe, but also talents that are already further along in their careers, like Raf Simons at Christian Dior or Nicolas at Vuitton.

Delphine Arnault

TimeAmazingInterestingChristian

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

Brian O'Driscoll

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