Eric Maisel Quotes
There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working - I miss them if I don't have them.
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That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
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I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone.
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Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.
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There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.
