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Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Thomas a Kempis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: german
Birth: 1380 - 1471

Topics

Confidence God Great Peace Anxiety

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

Character Trying You Kind Understand

I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don't need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.

Good Water Money You Need Plastic

Being on a horse is one of my most natural places to be.

Horse Places Natural Being Most

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

Music Myself I Am Think Picture

Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.

Jonathan Maberry

King Chair Bad Down Done Accept

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Jonathan Evison

Writing Way Safe Playing Found

When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.

Character Time Me You Play Out

I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix.

You Way More Write Contrast Tell

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Today Space People Remember You

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.

Christine Quinn

Community Bike Support Problems Way

My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed.

Name Down Know Said Irish She

You need to be very critical of yourself. There are a few very good managers who can make players better individually. Most managers think about the team process - and so you have to improve things on your own.

Good Yourself Team Think Better You

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