Eric Maisel Quotes
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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This is the word tightrope. Now imaginea man, inching across it in the spacebetween our thoughts. He holds our breath.There is no word net.You want him to fall, don't you?I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.The word applause is written all over him.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.
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I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
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Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
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My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.
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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
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If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.
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I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
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To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.
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The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
