I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
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RAIN BOJANGLES Lose your illusion or use your delusion. The choice is yours.
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RAIN BOJANGLES Be the person you needed when you needed help.
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RAIN BOJANGLES Greed is a deadly disease. Too bad it doesn't kill the greedy first.
RAIN BOJANGLES Live in the spirit, die in the spirit. Live by the gun, all bets are off.
RAIN BOJANGLES We speak to God when we are anxious. God speaks to us when we are still.
RAIN BOJANGLES Truth is a rarefied environment shared by the few, not the many.
RAIN BOJANGLES Take care lest a toe in the door becomes a foot in the mouth.
RAIN BOJANGLES All the books in all the libraries in all the world are of no use if little Johnny can't read.
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RAIN BOJANGLES Life is a gift. Open your present.
RAIN BOJANGLES God created a masterpiece. Now the creation is pissing all over the canvas.
RAIN BOJANGLES Women who refer to God as "He" embrace their own oppression.
RAIN BOJANGLES Religion requires God. God does not require religion.
RAIN BOJANGLES A truly good cop is as lonely as an honest politician.
RAIN BOJANGLES Hating someone you once loved is worse than never having loved them at all.
RAIN BOJANGLES I spent decades being intellectual before I finally learned to be intelligent.
RAIN BOJANGLES If the U.$. is truly a Christian nation, that doesn't speak well of Christianity
RAIN BOJANGLES Words are a clumsy interpretation of thought, which is a clumsy interpretation of being.
RAIN BOJANGLES The writing is on the wall, but most people are watching TV.
RAIN BOJANGLES Faith is a state of grace. It is not a state of mind.
RAIN BOJANGLES Weigh your words carefully. They may tip the balance."
RAIN BOJANGLES Hope springs eternal where faith abides.
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RAIN BOJANGLES You can't put feathers on a piranha and call it an angelfish.
RAIN BOJANGLES What if we treated the ones we loved the same way we treated ourselves?
RAIN COOPER People start to lie more once they start to care less.
RAIN COOPER Sometimes I feel as if I've lived about five lifetimes...all fictionalized in my five books.
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