Steve Erickson Quotes

'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become.

Steve Erickson

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There are two kinds of people in the entertainment industry: Those that close deals and those that don't.

Jerry Heller

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Controversy sells books.

Robert Gottlieb

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The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.

Jeff Sessions

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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

Steve Earle

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I can't get no satisfaction.

Mick Jagger

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I think that 'Twilight' is so big that nothing can affect it.

Judi Shekoni

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I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.

Phil Klay

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When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love.

Peter Andre

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When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

Shane Smith

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The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.

Todd Barry

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I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

Todd Solondz

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