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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Rules
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- Nov 07, 2020
You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my defining beliefs is that Jesus Christ has taken all of my guilt before God, and that he has been raised from the dead. That gives incredible hope and meaning to every day of my life - that nothing done in this world is wasted when it's done for him and his glory, and that there will be a day of justice and reward for the entire world.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to ultimately own the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The World Coming Down tour was around four years ago, and other than the wear and tear we've all sustained in the last four years, nothing much has changed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.
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- Nov 07, 2020