Brennan Manning Quotes
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.
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Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!
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I'm the money fight in the male shit at all divisions so fuck everybody else
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
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There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
