Erwin McManus Quotes
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.
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Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Being able to motivate girls to reach for their dreams, and giving them someone positive to look up to.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my passion was always that.
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You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?