I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.


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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ...
TED DEKKER
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...
TED DEKKER
My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ...
TED DEKKER
If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i...
TED DEKKER
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
TED DEKKER
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What...
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I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to ...
TED CRUZ
When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meani...
TED CRUZ
The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
TED CRUZ
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to recl...
TED CRUZ
I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.
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This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more a...
TED CRUZ
I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the script...
TED CRUZ
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because y...
TED CRUZ
If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.
TED CRUZ
It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten ...
TED CRUZ
I was so horrifically bad at tennis.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
TED CRUZ
In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
TED CRUZ
I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
TED CRUZ
Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
TED CRUZ
The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world...
TED CRUZ
When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fi...
TED CHIANG
I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sol...
TED CHIANG
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
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The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhal...
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