Steve Erickson Quotes
I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
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I don't know anything about science.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
