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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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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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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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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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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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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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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Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.
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People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn't real philanthropy; that's just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.
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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.
