Eric Stoltz Quotes
Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.
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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
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Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you?
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Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
