Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

Tullian Tchividjian

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LifeFaithImprovementVictoryBible

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

Joanna Scott

TruthHeartTimeArtLieStart

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Robert Morris

WorkWorldThinkTryingYouCreate

Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies just for the fun of it. Similarly, 'Black Mirror' likes to examine possible dystopias, but that doesn't mean the show is cynical enough to endorse them.

Jeff Vandermeer

MirrorFunBlackEnoughPossible

It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.

Roy Ayers

CreativeFeelingWonderfulJust

Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.

Lucy Dacus

LifeMusicQualityPeopleMeWeird

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

Joseph Brodsky

LanguageYouMatterOwnYour

I was strongly against Brexit. I speechified against Brexit.

Jose Angel Gurria

AgainstBrexitStrongly

When you feel good, you look good. And vice versa: When you look good, you feel good.

Christie Brinkley

GoodFeel GoodFeelYouLookVice

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

Chris O'Dowd

TechnologyGreatSocial MediaMedia

As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.

Chung Mong-joon

MyselfMeMediaInformationPerson

The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country.

Austan Goolsbee

GrowthSupportThinkImpactYear

Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'

Phyllida Lloyd

ArtMountainYourselfClimbStart

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