Brennan Manning Quotes
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
Quotes to Explore
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
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I had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, it was fun for me to learn everything from A to Z.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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Every storm runs, runs out of rain
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
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To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.
