"Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times"

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Source : Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo (2015). “Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

Todd Burpo

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“I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.”
“The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Donâ€™t ever ask for the true story.”
“I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.”
“Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.”
“Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.”
“Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.”
“My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.”
“I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.”

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