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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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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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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What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
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The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.
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Here's the rule that I set for myself, and I believe it - even on a show like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm': the more personal you are, the wider your audience.
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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.
