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.
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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.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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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.
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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.
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
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Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.
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I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
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If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
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I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.
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I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower.
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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.
