Eric Chaisson Quotes
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I'm a television junkie.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
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It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
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Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.
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Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.
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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
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Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'
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I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.
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When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
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If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.
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Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
