Ed Seykota Quotes
I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.
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I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, 'Oh my God, Oh my God.' My fans are like: 'Alright, Ed.'
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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I remember music first artists second.
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There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
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I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.
