Frank Peretti Quotes
My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Always be nice to people. Whatever how bad they are to you. To show them you are not like them.
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I didn't really realise that I was going to have more obstacles because I was a woman. It was never something that I thought about.
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I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.
Colson Whitehead -
When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.
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If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.
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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.
