Frank Peretti Quotes
My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.
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I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.
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You ask people, 'should we go back to square one?' People don't want to do that.
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Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.
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Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six year old?
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To me, the big difference is when you yell cut and then you have to walk over there and deliver a note, it gives it much more import as opposed to "Hey, try that." It's just much more intimate, I think.
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My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.
