EMA (Erika M. Anderson) Quotes
I've made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the same thing with online exposure. You have to be able to make the choices that can make you happy or it will make you crazy.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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I don't think I'm a good dancer.
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Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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It's not fair for little kids to feel bad about themselves for how they look.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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I was basically the person at Disney World that was in charge of clearing the park when it was closed... I was the guy... telling them to 'get the hell out and have a magical day.'
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I love writing about unknown people.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.
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You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
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I've made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the same thing with online exposure. You have to be able to make the choices that can make you happy or it will make you crazy.
