Erwin McManus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
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There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.
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I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
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The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet.
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In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.
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My animals are a really important part of my life.
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Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
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I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.
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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
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I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.
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When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.
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Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.
