Arthur Erickson Quotes
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Liking someone doesn't make you weak.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.
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So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.
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The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
