Eric Davis Quotes
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.
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People don't like to make mistakes.
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I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
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I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
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Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.
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The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all.
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I need to be playing in the Champions League.
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Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.
