Arthur Erickson Quotes
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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I'm an iPod person.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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I love acting and would love to do it more. It's harder to go into acting as a model now than it ever was because so many models are doing the same thing. I want to do anything that's challenging and not within my comfort zone, and a Bond girl is so different to who I am.
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Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.
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If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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In the great court, surrounded by broken-down droshkies and the skeletons of German motor-buses, we spread our sleeping-bags on the oily ground beside our vehicle. For the first time since leaving Istanbul we had achieved Hugh’s ambition to sleep ‘under the stars’.
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The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
