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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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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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.
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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.
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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
