Arthur Erickson Quotes
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Quotes to Explore
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
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The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
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You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
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Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
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Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it.
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The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
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Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
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All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.
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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
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Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
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I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.
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I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
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When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.
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So much time and so little to say..
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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
