Francis Chan Quotes
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
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As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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kk kk ggg ddd wowo well uh, well, no, well sa-ay. I I I know know know I I can but it's ha ha ha hard.
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Persistance, dedication Consistent, motivation, resistance to stagnation of information, distribute it free to the entire population No hesitation, makin it public No privitazation from corporations
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Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.
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I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with our failure to deal positively and forthrightly with the triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. We are presently moving down a dead-end road that can lead to national disaster. America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism.
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All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not burden my fellow students - I must not let that change. I must not become like them. I'll remember that every sin, every death, every sacrifice, is for freedom.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.
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True love requires sacrifice.
