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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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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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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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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Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
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Design is all about desire, but strangely this desire seems almost subject-less today, or at least lack-less; that is, design seems to advance a new kind of narcissism, one that is all image and no interiority - an apotheosis of the subject that is also its disappearance. Poor little rich man: he is 'precluded from all fuure living and striving, developing and desiring' in the neo-Art Nouveau world of total design and Internet plenitude.
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I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.
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When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.
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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.
