Fisher Stevens Quotes
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I was a really big kid.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
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Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
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I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
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I've been really lucky.
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We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and perceived. We are the walking wounded, and we want everyone to know.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.
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We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
