Arthur Erickson Quotes
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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Working in Korea with the talent and staff there was very eye-opening. I was in awe of everyone's talent, passion, and love for the process.
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The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
