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Elaine Pagels Quotes

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: February 13, 1943

Topics

Life Live Spiritual My Life Realize

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

Trust Mistakes Yourself You Afraid

I certainly have gay friends, but I don't remember thinking, 'Oh my God, I have this friend, and they're gay, and that's so cool.' I mean, I was very naive until I got to a certain age.

Friend God Age Cool Thinking Gay

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

Lawyer Know Protect Need Ability

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

People Reading Missed Something Able

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

Sleep Night Hours Normally

The hardest guy I had to guard: Hakeem Olajuwon. No one can guard Hakeem. And then, Kevin McHale.

Guard Guy Hardest Then Had Kevin

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

Change Art People Weekend Clothes

As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.

Character Eyes Culture Government

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Like Use Opium Condemned Strongly

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

Live Fun Feedback Acting Nothing

We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the consequences of not vaccinating your children are not only just that those children are exposed to illnesses; it's that everyone else they go to school with and they hang around with are, too.

Michael Specter

Children Time School Consequences Go

If you can make people laugh, you know you're getting it right; it's an instant pat on the back.

People Laugh You Back Know Right

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