Frank Peretti Quotes
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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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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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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 some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
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There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.
