EMA (Erika M. Anderson) Quotes
I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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Problems are cured by facing their cause.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
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I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
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I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
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I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.
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I have plenty of good friends that I think the world of - and Bob Dylan is one of them, and I like his music - but with some others... their music I just don't care too much about all of it. Some of it I like.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.
