Brennan Manning Quotes
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
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I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.
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Music means itself.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
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My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
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If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.
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The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.
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We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
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Parody is homage gone sour.
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My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge.
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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
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It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.
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You can either ask the question or experience the answer.
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We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.
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Jesus hung out with ragamuffins.
