Eric Schlosser Quotes
By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.
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I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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I love proving people wrong.
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I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
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In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.
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The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
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I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story.
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If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.
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An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
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Then he kissed her. It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face. 'Why did you stop?' asked Tessa. 'I thought you might want to breathe,' said Guy carefully. 'Breathe?'said Tessa , shocked. 'I don’t need to breathe when I’m with you.'
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By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.
