Brennan Manning Quotes
Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
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Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.
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Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
