Ted Dekker Quotes
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I still have a young attitude.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
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I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
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Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.