Eric Thomas Quotes
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
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You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.
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I'm a human being. I'm not dumping on what I've done. I mean I know we were doing social (stuff), all right? I just don't like boastin' about it, OK? I know what we were doin'. I know damn well what we did. But I ain't gonna start crying about it now, all right?
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Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality.
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
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I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.
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Huge 'Scandal' fan, and I have been since the beginning.
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My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
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Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
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I love the way I make hip-hop and I refuse to make pop-rap. I don't refuse to make mainstream music, which is why I did a soul record. There was no reason why soul music couldn't get played on the radio and I still wanted to have a relationship with my record label. So, I really enjoyed doing the Strickland Banks album. But there's no point in my trying to release underground hip-hop music on a major label. That part of my talent, or part of my art, had to live somewhere else and feature film was the perfect vehicle for it.
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The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
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The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
