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 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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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'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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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'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the outside, but is also good and noble on the inside in terms of character and in terms of purpose. And I think that's a fine description of the friendship that exists between the Greek people and the American people.
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Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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World Cups can be career-defining.
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I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writing, obviously, comes from tension. From trying to fuse. From trying to make coherent disparate things that might not at all seem to belong together within a narrative.
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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.
