Ernest Becker Quotes
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
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In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.
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There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
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When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'
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I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.
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Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.
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It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, 'What does he do? What does he do?' My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.
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The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
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As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.
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The old fiction room at my high school was a small box of wonders, and no matter how long I spent investigating its seven and a half overstuffed shelves, I never stopped discovering treasures.
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
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You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
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Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
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The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
