Erich Segal Quotes
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
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After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
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The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.
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In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
