Eric Maisel Quotes
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
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Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.
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Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
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I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
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I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
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As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.
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In the first years of the Queen's reign, the level of adulation - you wouldn't believe it. You really wouldn't.
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When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.
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The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
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When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
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People who are invested in feminist movements are going to be talking about it regardless. Because we have such powerful tools to disseminate information and share resources, especially via social media.
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Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.
