T. J. MacGregor quotes

“Don't seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow -- and the most important. Whether you'te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You're giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.”
-- T. J. MacGregor

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“Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.”
-- T. J. MacGregor

Source : T. J. MacGregor (1990). “Kin Dread”, Fawcett Books

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“Our experiences tend to support our belief systems.”
-- T. J. MacGregor

Source : T. J. MacGregor (1988). “Death Sweet”

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“Californians try everything once.”
-- T. J. MacGregor

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“Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.”
-- T. J. MacGregor

Source : T. J. MacGregor (1990). “Kin Dread”, Fawcett Books

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“Sutures of lightning tightened the edges of the sky.”
-- T. J. MacGregor

Source : T. J. MacGregor (1987). “Kill Flash”, Fawcett Books

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“it was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your pick.”
-- T. J. MacGregor

Source : T.J. MacGregor (2016). “Storm Surge”, p.65, Crossroad Press

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“James Leininger's story is the most compelling evidence so far for reincarnation.”
-- T. J. MacGregor

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“When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.”

“What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.”

“I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.”

“The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.”

“When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time”

“I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.”

“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.”

“The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!”

Source : "Chicago". Record on the spoken word album "Wake Up America!", 1971.

“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers