Brennan Manning Quotes
Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
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To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
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Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
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All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
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It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.
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I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.
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Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.
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Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.
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It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
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Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
