Erin McKeown Quotes
I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
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If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.
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The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
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I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me if you are not laughing at me.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.
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'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
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At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.
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Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.
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I'm definitely living my dream.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.
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I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.
