Eric Hill Quotes
I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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What would be the political benefits to Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be wildly popular with the ideological and Christian Left, and quietly welcomed by those Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who have silently supported amnesty and secretly want immigration off the table in 2016.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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Music isn't only a profession.
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I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
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A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."
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I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.
