Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  • Important
  • Remember

• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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  • Work
  • Why

• If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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  • Great
  • Movie

• The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

  

  Laura Linney
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  • Work
  • Decision

• The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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  • Want
  • Finding

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
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  • Help

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Religion

• You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.

  

  Hannah Kent
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  • Day
  • Morning

• I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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  • I Believe

• Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Voice
  • Saying

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.

  

  Fetty Wap
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  • Work
  • Love

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
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  • Band

• If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.

  

  Kate Brown
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  • Proud
  • Election

• I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.

  

  Brad Goreski
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  • Hair

• With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.'

  

  Jeff Ament
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  • Courage

• When I travel, I connect with creative people in all different fields and disciplines. It's sort of just to keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on. I think that's important.

  

  Mark Parker
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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• Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
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  • True