Erika Slezak Quotes
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
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'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,' said Jefferson, 'it expects what never was and never will be.'
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I lay down as a proposition that most of the people who work hard for a living in the country belong to the Liberal Party. I would say, and I think, without offence, that most of the people who never worked for a living at all belong to the Tory Party.
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It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.
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I haven't been on the stage in a long time.
