Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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The first icon of the 21st Century is the closed-circuit surveillance camera, slowly panning back and forth as we move beneath its gaze.
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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
