John Ericsson Quotes
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.
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I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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I got to tell you, guys that have sex with each other's anal cavities - how can we offend guys that actually have anal sex? Don't you think that might offend some of us who think that's despicable?
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The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;The chest contrived a double debt to pay,A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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Winning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Now comes the reign of iron.
