Eric West Quotes

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

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• As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Creation

• 'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Parents
  • Find
  • Very

• Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Goal

• So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Now
  • Sword
  • Now And Then

• I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Teenager
  • Master

• My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Miami

• I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Play

• I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Faces

• I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Opportunity

• It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Control
  • Best
  • Never

• I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

  

  Ang Lee
  • America
  • Culture
  • Care

• He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Pray

• I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Work
  • God
  • Hard

• It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this" - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Speak

• If you're not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you're building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you're not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.

  

  Alice Bag
  • Dream
  • Needs
  • Building

• So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Good
  • Forgotten
  • Average

• I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.' That's my purpose.

  

  Young M.A
  • People
  • Different
  • Purpose

• I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Ethics

• Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

  

  Eric West
  • Phone
  • Depressed
  • My Mom