Eric Maisel Quotes
Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
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There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.
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Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to undermine his authority.
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Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.
