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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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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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.
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May the best days of your past, be the worst days of your future.
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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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I well believe, thou wouldst be great as he;For every man's a fool to that degree:All wish the dire prerogative to kill;Ev'n they would have the power who want the will.
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You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
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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.
