Arthur Erickson Quotes

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

Arthur Erickson

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• With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.

  

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• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • American
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• Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.

  

  Dale Murphy
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  • Want
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• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
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• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Accent
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• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • People
  • Up
  • Walk

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Work
  • Great
  • Saying

• It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Difficult
  • Try
  • Possible

• I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Literature

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
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• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.

  

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  • People
  • World
  • Crazy

• There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

  

  Peter Pace
  • Leadership
  • Battle
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• A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Example
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• I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Trying
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• My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • May
  • Feeling
  • Dark