Steve Erickson Quotes

The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker.

Steve Erickson

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In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Jim Barksdale

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I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

Jenna Ushkowitz

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Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

John Lautner

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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

Maurice Sendak

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The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat.

Amiri Baraka

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To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

Steven Stucky

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No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

Toni Morrison

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I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

Tom Stoppard

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In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

Doc Hastings

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Sometimes being an actor is being a song in someone else's mixtape, so I really understand why more and more actors are making films of their own.

Clark Gregg

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To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

Boyd Rice

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'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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