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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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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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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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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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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I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.
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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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My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take pictures of the punk parties in the desert. She used to have blue hair, and she got kicked out of Las Vegas Day School for having blue hair.
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I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.
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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
