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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Media

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

  Dana Plato
  • You
  • Working
  • Pleasure

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• 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.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

  Questlove
  • Know
  • Working
  • Greatest

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Science
  • Body
  • Human

• 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.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• 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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Great
  • Man
  • Beginning

• 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.'

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • You
  • Just

• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Guitar

• I'm mostly a mess, and I hide it pretty well a lot of time.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Time
  • Pretty

• For my first big Fashion Week event, the factory wouldn't give me my clothes because I didn't have the $25,000 it cost to make them.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Fashion

• I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Work
  • Boy
  • Talent

• I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Arthur Erickson
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