Cold Cave (Wesley Eisold) Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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Movies are an expensive business.
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There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.
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While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong'; I play a completely different character - but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie.
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When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.
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To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
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I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.
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When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.
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Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.
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One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.
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Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.
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It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.
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I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying
