Erik Larson Quotes
. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
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Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
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You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.
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We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
