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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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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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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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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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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I don't want to be a celebrity.
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I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.
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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.
