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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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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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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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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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I wouldn't want to be President now!
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From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
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I feel like every movie has been wish fulfillment. For The Heat, I love Lethal Weapon. I watch it over and over again. I always wanted a friend like that; I always wanted to be the badass taking down the drug dealers. It was basically just writing what I wished I could be. Female friendship is so interesting to me. I often feel like when you make female friends as adults, it's polite. I wish it was less polite and you could be frank and mess around with each other.
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I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.
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You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?
