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 little Madness in the SpringIs wholesome even for the King.
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
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Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.
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Jesus hung out with ragamuffins.
