Eric Balfour Quotes
The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.
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Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.
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What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.
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The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.
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If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.
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The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subjected to the most serious types of enhanced procedures.
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The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.
