Frank Peretti Quotes
There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.
Quotes to Explore
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
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Kids are anarchy writ large.
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Part of the appeal of fantasy for me is that I don't get bored. If I want to write quasi-Medieval, that's what I write. If I feel like doing contemporary for a while, then I'll do it.
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Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
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There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.
