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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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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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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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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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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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
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I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.
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Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.
