Eric Maisel Quotes
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.
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I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.
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My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
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Writing has to support itself.
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The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is.
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I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.
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Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
