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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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'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'
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You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.
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They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.
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Freedom has its risks.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.
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Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
