T.L. Manning Quotes

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.

Uncyclopedia isn't funny anymore.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion.

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

I can only ask of those who care about me and the issues in my case to support me and spread the word about what is going on.

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.

I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier.

As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important.

The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and confidantes. I think I need to come up with a code name for this circle.

I don't like the feeling of losing.

Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They're sleeping in their office. They're watching film. It's a brutal, brutal job and that's why I respect them so much.

If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.

I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions.

I'll always have a kid in me.

When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.

We just have to go after our game plan.

My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.

One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.

Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.

I just want my sign and I want to throw it. I think it keeps everybody on their toes.

Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.

My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

There is no direct evidence that [Alex] Haley sat down with the F.B.I.

I believe that the FBI clearly was concerned, wanted to monitor and disrupt Malcolm X wherever possible.

Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.

Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle.

Anne Romaine collected her own parallel archive to [Alex] Haley.

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965].

The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place.

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.