Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
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I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
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As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
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All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.
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Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.
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I don't like toast... the black stuff gets in my teeth.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
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You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.
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And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam.
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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
