Arthur Erickson Quotes
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.
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I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.
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I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.
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Children are the only ones who don't want anything of me.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
