T. D. Jakes Quotes
Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.
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I want to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president.
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I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
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Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
