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 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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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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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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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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When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
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Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
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Choose again.
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It is only from the perspective of the outlaw … that we are able to see that mythically informed normality is a form of mass hypnosis.
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Why settle for so little in life when you can have so much just by daring to be different in your thinking.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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I really look up to Ashley Graham and how she promotes her body and flaunts it. She's beautiful and stunning, and I'm not going to say I love her body on Instagram and talk about it poorly in my personal life.
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There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.
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Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
