Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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It wasn't really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant.

Melvin Van Peebles

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The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Maxwell Anderson

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We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle.

Matthew Walker

SleepBrainEndEfficiencyYouKnow

Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up comedy. It's a very competitive world, and it was a challenge to find my own voice, stick to my guns.

Anjelah Johnson

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Studies of immigration show that this resistance to heart disease is not just something in African or Chinese genes. When people move from low-risk to high-risk areas, disease rates skyrocket as they adopt Western diets and lifestyles.

Michael Greger

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I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.

Trishelle Cannatella

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I love Charles Fuller.

Rutina Wesley

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I didn't like the name 'personal shopper.' That makes it sound like too much of a commodity and not personal enough.

Mickey Drexler

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Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

Jonathan Tropper

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I'm human, and I make mistakes.

Draymond Green

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With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.

Chuck Todd

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Even when I was a child, my best friend was a 92-year-old woman.

Allison Williams

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