Francis Chan Quotes
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	I was doing community theater since I was about nine.   
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	I've found that musical theater is my passion.   
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	In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.   
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	Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.   
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	I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.   
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	I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.   
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	It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.   
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	Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.   
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	I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.   
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	There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.   
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	An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.   
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	I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.   
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	When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.   
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	I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.   
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	I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.   
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	Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.   
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	I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.   
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	I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!   
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	Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.   
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	It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.   
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	Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord, for if we do, we endanger our salvation.   
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	A conductor should guide rather than command.   
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	I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					