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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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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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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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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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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You live alone, creating your life as you go.
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I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.
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Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
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I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.
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I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
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The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
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I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?
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I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
