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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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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When the Head is Rotten, It Affects the Whole Body
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Personal religion has a supreme value for its own sake, not merely as a feeder of social morality, but as the highest unfolding of life itself, as the blossoming of our spiritual nature. Spiritual regeneration is the most important fact in any life history. A living experience of God is the crowning knowledge attainable to a human mind.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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Health food makes me sick.
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No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle.
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You need sucky things in life to make you stronger.
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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.
