Frank Peretti Quotes
I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
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The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
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It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.
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Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
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Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.
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Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.
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I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.
