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To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

DeVon Franklin

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DeVon Franklin
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: April 13
Author
Film Producer
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Wants
Become
Firsts
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Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for?
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You know, I think people underestimate how miraculous getting a movie made is.
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What if you are just one bend in the road away from achieving your God-ordained purpose? If you give up on your faith now, could you live with knowing that your chance of a lifetime was only one act of faith away?
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Every production is by faith, every single one. You can't do it unless you have faith because one, you never know if it's going to work, and two, if you aren't compelled and you aren't passionate, then you can't convince the studio to give you millions of dollars to make a movie and then spend millions more to market it.
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I'm connected to religion and that's how I access God. I'm in a relationship with God that can sometimes be informed by religion, but not dependent on religion.
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I was an executive at Columbia Pictures for ten years. I was doing great. My career was on the upswing. But, right then, was when I said I gotta quit. I gotta start my own company. I gotta be on the other side of it because I felt the strong call on my life - to tell stories that, on the face of it, might not look like a commercial movie.
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Trust the gifts that God has placed within you.
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Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.
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