Erik Larson Quotes
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What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
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All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.
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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.
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Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.
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I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.
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The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise...
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Getting even is one reason for writing.
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We never settle for 'This is good enough.' It always has to be amazing because that's the kind of music we'd want to listen to, and that's the kind of music we want to give to other people.
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.
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Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through.
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Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
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I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.
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Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.
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He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
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I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
