There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.
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Related I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t... ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging a... JOSS WHEDON My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me wit... RAINI RODRIGUEZ I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to m... TONY DITERLIZZI Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and... JOSH DUHAMEL Everybody has their own answer of what a catch should be. I say, secure the ball; if the ball is not... RANDY MOSS Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the ca... STEVE CARELL Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to... LL COOL J I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a... FLUME There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfie... ASHTON EATON My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems... JENNI RIVERA Find what you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life, that's true. But also alw... LISA VANDERPUMP Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always goin... DAN AUERBACH I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I... KELLY MASTERSON There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be t... JUNIOR SEAU When the ball is in there air, it belongs to me. I have to be able to come down the jump ball. That ... GREG CARR There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adve... ODELL BECKHAM, JR. To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the... MAYA ANGELOU Fame is a funny thing. I like doing normal things. I like going to fairs. I like going to ball games... CHRIS EVANS I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country th... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on ... MELISSA JOAN HART It's amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong... REGGIE BUSH Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of t... M. J. ROSE All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside... 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It has found itself either as a frea... DAVID CHIPPERFIELD I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it... LAUREN DAIGLE A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't... BRIAN SELZNICK When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and exci... ANTOINE FUQUA I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on t... FLAVOR FLAV Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, an... LUPE FIASCO You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going t... AARON SPELLING Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on... TAYLOR SCHILLING I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that&... T. C. BOYLE If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. JACK LEMMON It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a conc... HOWIE MANDEL The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the ... JOSS WHEDON The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become mult... ELON MUSK I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focu... GINA RODRIGUEZ We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits ou... JOHN MADDEN This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I ha... WENDELL BERRY It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I do... ABIGAIL BRESLIN That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve t... ALLEN WEST A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means... CAT DEELEY Everything that's going on within the peloton - there's about ten different races going on. ... DAVID MILLAR The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster... HARLAND WILLIAMS Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue... BECCA FITZPATRICK Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ... JACK WAGNER My mother's no dummy. She taught the lesson about sacrificing for your kids, but also that if yo... SEAN COMBS I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was ... ODED FEHR If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actuall... DIPLO And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home... EDDIE MURRAY What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try... JOE NICHOLS I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d... DAVE ATTELL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what ... B.O.B It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it rea... JOHN ZORN Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it transl... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doi... DONNY OSMOND If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that.... DAVID HENRY HWANG But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia... RICHARD SERRA I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t... T-PAIN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS We're all weirdos, and people want to work so hard to fit into society, but it's like, no ma... KEKE PALMER There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&... VAN MORRISON The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there'... SETH GODIN When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT The thing I always try to hold onto with 'BoJack' and with 'Flaked' is that maybe th... WILL ARNETT My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody fo... WARREN G The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser... LARRY THE CABLE GUY I think going into the tournament if it gets to that situation, that?s something that I would defini... ANN STROTHER If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always &... TYLER PERRY I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, somet... EDEN HAZARD I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two ... KIMORA LEE SIMMONS When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that L... CALLIE KHOURI When I get ready for a high-profile event, it's really about sleep and making sure I'm eatin... DARBY STANCHFIELD I would never make a purely autobiographical movie, because it would be incredibly boring. But I alw... NICHOLAS STOLLER I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I thin... CARLY SCHROEDER I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if y... VINCENT CASSEL What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i... ALBERT BROOKS What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is ju... ZEDD And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it&... KRISTEN STEWART There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that ... LUPE FIASCO It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It&... JENNIFER EGAN I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
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ELISABETH ELLIOT But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do ... ELISABETH ELLIOT God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justi... ELISABETH ELLIOT Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less,... ELISABETH ELLIOT If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril i... ELISABETH ELLIOT One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when a... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for. ELISABETH ELLIOT Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you ELISABETH ELLIOT The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will no... ELISABETH ELLIOT Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logic... ELISABETH ELLIOT The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appe... ELISABETH ELLIOT Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward... ELISABETH ELLIOT I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself ... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is... ELISABETH ELLIOT One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lif... ELISABETH ELLIOT The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. ELISABETH ELLIOT What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may... ELISABETH ELLIOT I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in ... ELISABETH SHUE I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have.... ELISABETH SHUE I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play. ELISABETH SHUE She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is... ELISABETH SHUE Writing? Pshhh, this is art. NOELLE ELISABETH The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much ELISABETH FOLEY Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of conta... ELISABETH ELLIOT You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally rea... JENNIFER ELISABETH I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure ... JENNIFER ELISABETH I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’v... JENNIFER ELISABETH I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stre... JENNIFER ELISABETH I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not the... JENNIFER ELISABETH I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes… JENNIFER ELISABETH I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the... JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this lis... JENNIFER ELISABETH I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. ... JENNIFER ELISABETH I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und... JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other peop... JENNIFER ELISABETH Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experien... JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of... JENNIFER ELISABETH I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton ... JENNIFER ELISABETH You haunt my days and dreams. JENNIFER ELISABETH If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep. JENNIFER ELISABETH I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear. JENNIFER ELISABETH The Fall will always be yours and mine… JENNIFER ELISABETH Your personal truth is your gift to the world. JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinnin... JENNIFER ELISABETH Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportuniti... JENNIFER ELISABETH