Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
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I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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E.U.-U.S. ties are deeper than any change in politics.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
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Love just happens, you know.
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travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.
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As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
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I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.
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There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.
