Erwin McManus Quotes

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

Erwin McManus

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• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Want
  • Violence
  • Gift

• When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Power
  • Powerful

• It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Done
  • Hand
  • Growth

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

  

  Owen Hart
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Interested
  • I Was Raised

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Child
  • Uncle

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Country
  • Gun

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Time
  • Character
  • Man

• When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Perspective

• My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • World
  • Writing
  • Done

• I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Myself
  • Sexy
  • Classy

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Book
  • Place
  • Map

• All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Soul
  • Always
  • Old

• It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Work
  • Why
  • Smile

• Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Jazz

• Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Goals
  • Sense
  • Places

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Character

• Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Character
  • Win
  • Talent