Erik Larson Quotes
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I'm a slow starter.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
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Fashion is more about feel than science.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.
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At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.
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Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.
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I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.
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I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
