Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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I dress for men.
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I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a way in most of my life to wear a jumpsuit or an overall, anything that's sort of like an all-in-one situation. I do that on the red carpet a lot.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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After the Visakhapatnam and Araku shoot, I am leaving for Ahmedabad and Bangalore, followed by Hyderabad. This is the time I can work hard, so I never feel the pressure, as I am a workaholic.
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Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
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Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
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I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Only in the stillness of thought can decisions be properly made.
