Erwin McManus Quotes
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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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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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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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 felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks to Schoolly D's "Saturday Night." I would give anything for a video of that.
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I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.'
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The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
