J.F. Baldwin Quotes

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

Encores! is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

Even with revivals, I dont really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

Startups are based in faith, and the ones that succeed have no fear.

The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences.

In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

That's when I began drinking coffee. I was hung up on every little thing. I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home. Not to be grandiose, but it seemed like all the city had been waiting for me.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.

This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.

The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

I'm a skydiver, I race motorcycles and I enjoy the thrill of life and for me in this walk of faith there really is no greater thrill than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your life.

I believe God lets us go through all of what we go through for a reason and it's all part of a continued learning curve and journey of revelation and knowledge.

I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.

I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't [be in].

People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.

I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.

I was always a God guy.

Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel.

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.