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'm a big fan, and I like the idea of fighting Roy Jones Jr.
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Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
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I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
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With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.
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I'm really focused and committed to teaching now. Maybe when I'm about 30, which is in 10 years, I would like to consider doing something like speech therapy. That's what I really would like to do. I could go and do that now but it's not my drive at the moment. My drive is acting right now.
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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.