Eric Maisel Quotes
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Writing bores me so.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.
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You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
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Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.
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I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'
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Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".
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Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food.
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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
