Steve Erickson Quotes

When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.

Steve Erickson

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ResponsibilityPeopleStartBecome

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Joanna Lumley

NeverSocialConstraintsFelt

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

Joan Allen

CharacterMyselfThinkLadyActor

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.

Jeff Koons

ArtSchoolRememberStudentChicago

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Rosalind Wiseman

UncomfortableEverydayTalkAbout

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

Michael Leunig

LifeChildThinkBetterMy Life

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

Jason Statham

FocusYourselfThinkYouCompetitive

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

Donna Shalala

ThinkThoughtMoreNutsDemocrats

For me, it is important to stay close to my players.

Claudio Ranieri

MeImportantStayPlayersClose

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

Bob Saget

BestExperienceNew YorkPlayThree

How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

Ali Smith

LifeWarSingingWorldTopMars

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

Sylvia Earle

LifeSeaAnimalsLandHalfKinds

I was shy and didn't believe in myself, and I only bloomed when I was in theater during rehearsal. And that's how my family found out that that's where I needed to be, because that's where I felt the most comfortable.

Lindsay Pearce

FamilyMyselfBelieveShyOutWhere

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