Mary Callahan Erdoes Quotes
There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.
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I would love to do something with Bill Withers just because I think he's next-level, just so, so class!
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
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There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.
