Steve Erickson Quotes

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'

Steve Erickson

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For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.

Jim Lovell

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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Ann Bancroft

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Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

Jeffrey Brown

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Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

Steven Rattner

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One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

Steven Pinker

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Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

Tony Harrison

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My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.

Mary Berry

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It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.

Lucy Liu

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I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.

Little Simz

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The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.

Jonathan Miles

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Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

Dennis Prager

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Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

Bob Newhart

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