Erik Parker Quotes
The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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I will fight the fight I need to fight to win.
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There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
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There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.
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Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
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You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
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You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs.
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New motherhood is such a vulnerable and powerful time, but it's also really hard.
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The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I could point to him as a representative. Someone who put my struggle and my worldview into poetry.
