Francis Chan Quotes
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
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The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.
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In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.
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We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
