Brennan Manning Quotes
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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I will run against anybody.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.
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'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a consecration of its own.'
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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
