Elliot Ackerman Quotes
All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.
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When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for.
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Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.