Brennan Manning Quotes
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.
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One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
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And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
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Believe in yourself and know that you're strong enough to get through just about anything.
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This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.
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I want to know I made women's soccer better than it was when I came into it.
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In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.
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I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.
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Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.
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The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.
