Lawrence Wright Quotes

If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work ethic. Whatever you might think about the authenticity of their theology or their history, it's immaterial in terms of how the religion itself actually functions.

Lawrence Wright

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1947

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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Jock Sturges

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There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenues for people to make their feelings known, which is good.

Anderson Cooper

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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

John James Audubon

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I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Steve Jobs

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Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

Steny Hoyer

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I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

Tom Jones

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If I have freedom to experiment with a scene, then I try my best to do that. With TV and with the variety of directors you have on a season, you rarely get that opportunity. It's more structured.

Dominique McElligott

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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

Chuck Close

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That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development.

Winnie Byanyima

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Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Pedro Almodovar

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And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

Morgan Freeman

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There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.

Kenneth Chenault

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