Brother Roger (Roger Schütz) Quotes
You are the one who, every morning, slips on my finger the ring of the prodigal son, the ring of festival.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
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Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things: you can't leave the bathroom door open... you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.
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You are the one who, every morning, slips on my finger the ring of the prodigal son, the ring of festival.
