Eric Balfour Quotes
To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
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Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!
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I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
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To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.
