Francis Chan Quotes
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
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Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.
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I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
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Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.
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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
