Arthur Erickson Quotes
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Quotes to Explore
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
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I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, you can, if you want to. It's probably just going to feel like most people's.' I take it as a compliment.
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My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
