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James Lipton

"They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show."

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"They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show."

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Brennan Manning

"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

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Brennan Manning

"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

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Brennan Manning

"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

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Brennan Manning

"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."

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Brennan Manning

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

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Brennan Manning

"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

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Brennan Manning

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

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Brennan Manning

"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

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Brennan Manning

"When our environment changes we change, and this combination of transformative deeds create a synergistic effect. Seemingly, insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes can eventfully lead to fundamental qualitative changes in the way a group of people function as a society."

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"It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down."
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"If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen."
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"We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything."
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"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
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"I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates."
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