Eric Shanteau Quotes
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Too clever is dumb.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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Both traditional broadcasters and podcasters are betting heavily on the growth of voice-driven technology and so-called smart speakers, the theory being that it is as easy to ask Amazon's Alexa to play you the 'Guardian Books' podcast as it is to get it to play Capital FM.
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In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.
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One of the things that has proven true in our career is that even if you take something that's as straightforward and classic as a father-son story, you can express it in a way that's totally unique to you.
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Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.
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It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.
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I know there's life after the Olympics.
