Eyedea (Micheal David Larsen) Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I won't talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it. It's a waste of my time. If they don't feel 'called' - why in God's name would you do this?
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Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.
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Poets play with words to keep themselves sane.
