EMA (Erika M. Anderson) Quotes
I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.
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It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.
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Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
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When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.
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I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.
