Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.


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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th...
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All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, ...
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My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's und...
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It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the d...
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My r...
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ...
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this s...
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou...
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. Th...
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet...
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantas...
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ...
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality...
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ...
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving bey...
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The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, a...
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My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ...
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If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i...
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What...
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
TED DANSON
Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunit...
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick...
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We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evol...
TED DANSON
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take anot...
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a...
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbli...
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca...
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