Eric Thomas Quotes
I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
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βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ.
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The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes successful and gets branded with a certain sound, if the brand starts to become more of the focus than the evolution of the art, then that's putting the cart before the horse.
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I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
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I love performing. I love the people. I sound like Liza Minnelli right now, don't I?
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I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.
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We all owe America. It's not the other way around.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.
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I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.
