Brennan Manning Quotes
We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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I'm an emotional person.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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Monetarism is dead and the alien doctrines of Friedman and Hayek remain only to be buried.
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I think what we need to do is to have an immigration system where legal immigration is easier.
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There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
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I don't seek power and do not run around
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We unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.
