Erwin McManus Quotes
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
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I love you, too... I won't ever leave you again. I promise. I kept that promise. For love him I did. For nearly two years I spent almost every waking hour with him. Until he was taken from me. But I never left him. And I never will.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.
