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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Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.
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Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
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I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.
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New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.
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You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
