Erik Paulsen Quotes
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Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
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Oh, I think it was like when, you know, Cupid throws an arrow and hits you. First, there was this Mexican band, dressed up with bows and arrows. They were playing some funky weird music,, I didn't know it yet, but it was like Lee Perry, George Clinton, and Sun Ra mixed up, Mexican funky.
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Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.
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A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. … Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.
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'WTF is MDNA?
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Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)
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Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.
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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.
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It was white people who got Trump into office.
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I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.
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Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so strong is my feeling for my subject. On occasion, I have been so moved by the events I have been describing that I have felt like crying.
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We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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I'm not a kid trying to make an impression in the business. I do have 600 films out there that are playing constantly.
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I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.
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I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
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I just have a hard time displaying things.
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Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.
