Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?
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Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.
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I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light.
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The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools
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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
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The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
