Charlotte Erickson Quotes
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
Quotes to Explore
-
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
-
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
-
I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
-
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
-
I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
-
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
-
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
-
When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
-
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
-
I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
-
My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.
-
I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
-
My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
-
We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
-
Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
-
I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
-
There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.
-
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
-
My mother watched me. It was true. I had never loved her more.
-
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
-
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
-
For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.
-
Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.
-
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
