Francis Chan Quotes
Oswald Chambers writes, ‘Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is with you.’ To that I would add, ‘Be careful not to turn others’ lives into the mold for your own.’ Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
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That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.
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Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.
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There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
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The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
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I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
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You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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Oswald Chambers writes, ‘Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is with you.’ To that I would add, ‘Be careful not to turn others’ lives into the mold for your own.’ Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
