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"If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."
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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"
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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."
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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."
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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"
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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."
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"I am born to win."
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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."
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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."
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"It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted."
Spirit

"If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place."
Life

"I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no."
Love

"Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours."
People

"I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do."
Mind

"I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way."
Work

"I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did."
First

"From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London."
Acting

"I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."
Light

"I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors."
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