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 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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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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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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My animals are a really important part of my life.
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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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My collections are full of adaptable pieces: within the energetic lifestyle of L.A., they are able to take you from the beach in Malibu to the red carpet in Hollywood.
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I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me!
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The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.
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I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.
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While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
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In the case of man, righteousness is adjustment to God, and an articulation with man based upon that adjustment. Are you a righteous man? Am I a righteous man? Are you righteous? Then, if so, wherein does your righteousness consist? That your whole life is adjusted to God, and is moulded by that adjustment. This is righteousness.
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I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.
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I had to find the courage to turn my life around.
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There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.
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Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.
