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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Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern white intellectual circles as one of the 'best of his race.' As an avowed socialist, he was the only black member of the original 19 wealthy socialist founders of the NAACP.
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A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
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The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.
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One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.
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Jesus hung out with ragamuffins.
