Steve Erickson Quotes
Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
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It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.
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The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.
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When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I’d memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.
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Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
