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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Back when we started this at the tail end of 'Eye of the North,' Ree Soesbee and I worked out 250 years of timeline between the end of 'Eye of the North' and the beginning of 'Guild Wars 2.'
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We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.
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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.
