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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Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.
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The intelligible forms of ancient poets,The fair humanities of old religion,The power, the beauty, and the majestyThat had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,Or chasms and watery depths, - all these have vanished;They live no longer in the faith of reason.
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He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That's exactly what he said. I didn't know exactly what to think about that, but Dante was going to be Dante and it I was going to be his friend, I would just have to learn to be okay with it.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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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.
