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 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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I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.
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Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
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Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?
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Poets play with words to keep themselves sane.
