Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.
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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
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Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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I'm down here in Mexico, sick as a dog.My head is poundin' in this border town fog.Down to my last dime and comin' apart at the seams.I've messed up in Mexico, livin' on refried dreams.
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Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
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'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
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I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
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I love fierce performers.
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I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.
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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
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I embrace everybody for who and what they are.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Some people should never have children.
