Ezra Furman Quotes
My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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On the set I never know what day of the week it is.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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Hema ji is a dedicated artist and a perfectionist who continues to rehearse on her lines till she gets them right.
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I hate touchy-feely things.
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It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.
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Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.
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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
