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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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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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 did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.
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With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
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When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he God has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.
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I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.
