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I had a fear of becoming anything a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor but if you become a doctor that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady reliable and safe in a confusing world.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual and of the people as a whole not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

It's a very different thing religion and faith. Religion is man-made it's man-regulated. And faith you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians they're not all growing in their faith they're not all active but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you I think.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices every one of them are leading you inexorably to either success or failure however you define those terms.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world divide and conquer must become define and empower.