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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Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.
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Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.
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The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
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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.
