Erwin McManus Quotes
Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?
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Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
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When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You don't need to be an expert to realise that sustainable development is going to become the greatest challenge we face this century
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I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.
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It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.
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Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?
