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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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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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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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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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
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Bigger is always better.
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
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Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.
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I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.
