"The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies."

-- Eugene H. Peterson

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“I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.”
“I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.
“I am quite a private person.”

Source : "Club class". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2005.
“The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.”
“Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2015). “The Master of Go”, p.87, Random House
“Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business”
“I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.”
“Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.”

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