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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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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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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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 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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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone's got to make a wake up call.
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The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. And that's what brings me into it.
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τόπος μηδένα φυσιούτω· τὸ γὰρ ὅλον ἐστὶν πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη, ὧν οὐδὲν προκέκριται.
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We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
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I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.
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As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.
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I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.
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I love to go to the airports and just put on, like, dark glasses, so nobody can tell I'm staring at them, and just draw people.
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He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
