Erin McKeown Quotes
The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.

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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.
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I'm intrigued by what video can do. It can endear you to a song that might pass your ears otherwise. You remember interesting imagery. It can change your perspective.
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You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.
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We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
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A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
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He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
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It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.
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Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
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If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
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The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
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When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room.
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One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose a game tomorrow and win a football team.
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Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
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The way I look at it, you've got to do what makes sense. I wouldn't take (any possibility) off the table. Everything is on the table for me.
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Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.