Eric Alterman Quotes
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.
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I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.
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With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.
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We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
