Francis Chan Quotes
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
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We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
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One night, I remember being really sick in bed with chills and a fever when Ann came in all excited and said, 'I have these lyrics! Let me read them to you!' They were the lyrics to 'Crazy on You,' and in my fever haze I said, 'Yeah! Those are really good!'
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.
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My sister and I are pretty dorky, so we drive around at night in her car listening to old Disney songs and feed the coyotes cans of wet cat food, which I'm sure is a terrible idea. Meanwhile, 'Cinderella' and 'Sleeping Beauty' showtunes are playing in the background.
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I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.
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We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
