David A. R. White quote: "Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community."

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

The Lord, over the years, grew a seed in my heart to make faith-based films.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie thea...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the s...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

We have anticipated releasing the trailer for 'Do You Believe?' to audiences, as so many hav...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

I don't think it's any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

As an actor, you've worked very hard, and you've been doing this for 20-some years, and Will...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, ...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

I saw one movie in theatres in the first 18 years of my life.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

We created Pure Flix to make uplifting and inspiring content on a consistent, ongoing basis, so audi...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be invol...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see q...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after hig...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

I want to live my life the way Jesus does - I want to love people.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a ...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

If you can make a living doing what you love, that is a blessing.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say...
CARL R WHITE

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.
R. S. WHITE

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulti...
BYRON R. WHITE

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death pena...
BYRON R. WHITE

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy [and] it is evident that the school setting ...
BYRON R. WHITE

Short of homicide, [rape] is the "ultimate violation of self."
BYRON R. WHITE

Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the persona...
BYRON R. WHITE

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
BYRON R. WHITE

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.
CARL R WHITE

At the heart of the controversy in these cases are those recurring pregnancies that pose no danger w...
BYRON R. WHITE

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.
CARL R WHITE

Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, s...
BYRON R. WHITE

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral c...
BYRON R. WHITE

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constit...
BYRON R. WHITE

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in ligh...
BYRON R. WHITE

Sports and other forms of vigorous physical activity provide educational experience which cannot be ...
BYRON R. WHITE

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalt...
BYRON R. WHITE

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are qu...
BYRON R. WHITE

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is how we let them really know us.
CARL R WHITE

The Christian has been drawn unto Christ. Those who wish to boast in having something to do with the...
JAMES R. WHITE

Some say that a woman that trades her body for money is a whore, if that is the case, then a woman t...
CARL R WHITE

There is only one way of salvation. Men are sinful rebels against God, by nature, enemies of holines...
JAMES R. WHITE

The beauty of Janice?s gift was that there were no restrictions. But we, in a sense, created a restr...
DAVID WHITE

Even though the Swans have been there for over 20 years now and really built up a loyal following, A...
DAVID WHITE

He had a GPS (global positioning satellite tether) on his leg, so we knew where he went and there wa...
DAVID WHITE

It's a slight inconvenience. It's a little bit hectic here tonight.
DAVID WHITE

I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my...
A. R. RAHMAN

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
R. A. SALVATORE

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for...
R. A. SALVATORE

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
R. A. SALVATORE

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field ...
R. A. SALVATORE

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade...
R. A. SALVATORE

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept g...
R. A. SALVATORE

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and ...
R. A. SALVATORE

On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that t...
R. A. SALVATORE

Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that ...
R. A. SALVATORE

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for...
R. A. SALVATORE

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my reader...
R. A. SALVATORE

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hope...
R. A. SALVATORE

Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a differenc...
R. A. SALVATORE

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from ...
R. A. SALVATORE

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
R. A. SALVATORE

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining tha...
R. A. SALVATORE

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
R. A. SALVATORE

I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't...
R. A. SALVATORE

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the read...
R. A. SALVATORE

This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people c...
R. A. SALVATORE

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I&...
R. A. SALVATORE

Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, ...
R. A. SALVATORE

I loved the world of imagination.
R. A. SALVATORE

Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
R. A. SALVATORE

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their ...
A. R. RAHMAN

I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?&#...
A. R. RAHMAN

Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies....
A. R. RAHMAN

My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., Fr...
A. R. RAHMAN

I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running b...
A. R. RAHMAN

I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keep...
A. R. RAHMAN

It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to g...
A. R. RAHMAN

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.
A. R. RAHMAN

If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
A. R. RAHMAN

Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people ...
A. R. RAHMAN

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
A. R. RAHMAN

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so...
A. R. RAHMAN

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has ...
A. R. RAHMAN

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look...
A. R. RAHMAN

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. RAHMAN

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded pl...
A. R. RAHMAN

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. ...
A. R. AMMONS

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not ...
A. R. AMMONS

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned a...
A. R. AMMONS

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other p...
A. R. AMMONS

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often direc...
A. R. AMMONS

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all...
A. R. AMMONS

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
A. R. AMMONS

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often ne...
A. R. AMMONS

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principle...
A. R. AMMONS

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. AMMONS

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while t...
A. R. AMMONS

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rat...
A. R. AMMONS

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance tha...
A. R. AMMONS

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't ...
A. R. AMMONS

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
A. R. AMMONS

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included...
A. R. AMMONS

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks t...
A. R. AMMONS

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route ca...
A. R. AMMONS

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank o...
A. R. AMMONS

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they...
A. R. AMMONS

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't...
A. R. AMMONS

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all m...
R. A. TORREY

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone...
A. R. AMMONS

Only silence perfects silence.
A. R. AMMONS

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, &#...
A. R. AMMONS

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can neve...
A. R. ORAGE

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not ...
A. R. TIPPETT

If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of ...
R. A. TORREY

I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
R. A. TORREY

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R A DICKSON

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can neve...
A. R. ORAGE

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
R A DICKSON

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense th...
R. A. BUTLER

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have ...
R. A. SALVATORE

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need per...
R. A. SALVATORE

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which ...
A. R. RAHMAN

It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better...
A. R. RAHMAN

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
A. R. RAHMAN

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. S...
A. R. RAHMAN

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to...
A. R. RAHMAN

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the outp...
A. R. RAHMAN

I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen ...
A. R. RAHMAN

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is als...
A. R. RAHMAN

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth...
A. R. RAHMAN

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't ...
A. R. RAHMAN

I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because...
A. R. RAHMAN

Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it&...
A. R. RAHMAN

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone...
A. R. AMMONS

In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. AMMONS

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
A. R. AMMONS

Politics is largely a matter of heart.
R. A. BUTLER

The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies.
R. A. PINKER

The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, th...
A. R. RAHMAN

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you t...
A. R. RAHMAN

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the sk...
A. R. RAHMAN

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A. R. RAHMAN

I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Rame...
A. R. RAHMAN

The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marr...
A. R. RAHMAN

Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there a...
A. R. RAHMAN

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patc...
A. R. RAHMAN

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that ...
A. R. RAHMAN

We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on t...
R. A. TORREY

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
R A DICKSON

The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come ...
A. R. RAHMAN

Loving connections are intimately associated with belief. The more connected we are, the more we bel...
R. A. DELMONICO

For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls dis...
A. R. RAHMAN

Nothing makes a man more invincible than to "know" that death is not the end.
R. A. DELMONICO

Step into the light and create your own shadow.
R. A. BENTINCK

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture o...
A. R. RAHMAN

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
A. R. RAHMAN

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be ...
A. R. RAHMAN

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My famil...
A. R. RAHMAN

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just ...
A. R. RAHMAN

I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy ...
A. R. RAHMAN

Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to ...
A. R. RAHMAN

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
A. R. RAHMAN

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta...
A. R. RAHMAN

My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody l...
A. R. RAHMAN

I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music...
A. R. RAHMAN

I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that....
A. R. RAHMAN

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I a...
A. R. RAHMAN

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
A. R. RAHMAN

What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?
JEFFREY A. WHITE

" Your life is only worth; what you think its worth living for? What do you think?" Dawayne A White
DAWAYNE A WHITE

Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings.
JEFFREY A. WHITE

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
DAVID R. BROWER

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the P...
DAVID R. BROWER

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on...
DAVID R. BROWER

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of...
DAVID R. ELLIS

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
DAVID R. BROWER

Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the ...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
DAVID R. ELLIS

With spiritual work, the terms 'is' or 'are' become progressively replaced by the term 'seems to', w...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Every thought, action, decision or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, interbalancing, ever...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
DAVID R. HAWKINS

You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful. It's the neediness that's t...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all.
DAVID R. HAWKINS

All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger com...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because what...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're fri...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on th...
DAVID R. GERGEN

Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything n...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassiona...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occur...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

The downside of spiritual education is the buildup of the vanity of 'I know' and the devaluation of ...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
DAVID R. BROWER

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chem...
DAVID R. BROWER

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the...
DAVID R. BROWER

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You...
DAVID R. BROWER

I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything--what a relief!
DAVID R. HAWKINS

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited ...
DAVID R. BROWER

Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.

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