Brennan Manning Quotes
We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
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When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
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Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
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I've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.
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We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
