Eric Maisel Quotes
As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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To play Khal Drogo was phenomenal, and I wished there was more stuff he could have done. I'm going to miss that character.
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When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.
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I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.
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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
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Stop it,” I said. “Just stop it!” I knew I was starting to cry and I was so sick, sick, sick to death of all those sad damned tears I had inside me. How could I have so many tears living there, in my body? How could they fit? When was it going to stop? When?
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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.
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When riding, ask yourself what will my horse get out of it if I get what I want? Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.
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As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.
