Francis Schaeffer Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
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The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
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If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can't see us. But I can't see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.
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This just looks like the oil and gas industry are shamelessly using the tragedy of Katrina and Rita to try and push their special-interest agenda through Congress. We need to address our energy needs, but we don't need to jeopardize our environment and economy to do it, and we shouldn't use a national tragedy as cover for bad policy.
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How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
