Darin Erstad Quotes
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
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All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.
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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.
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God finds himself by creating.
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I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us.
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I am persuaded, therefore, that the Maryland procedure is virtually constitutional. Since it is not, however, actually constitutional, I would affirm the judgment of the Maryland Court of Appeals reversing the judgment of conviction.
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'You can hardly blame them.''Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.'
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If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.
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Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
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It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.
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Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.
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Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .
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All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.
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I always take things step by step and match by match.
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Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.
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I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.
