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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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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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 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 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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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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To act is to rest.
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I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.
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I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.
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But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
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Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.
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Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.
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Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.
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And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.
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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
