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"When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story."
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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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Personal Development

"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."
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"Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran."
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Personal Development

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see."
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"The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them."
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Personal Development

"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
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"We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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"I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it."
People

"The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like."
Creativity

"Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable."
People

"It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers."
People

"Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose."
Poetry

"When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder."
Religion

"I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course."
Christian

"I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off."
Literature

"While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area."
Sports

"I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios."
Love
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