Steve Erickson Quotes

Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.

Steve Erickson

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Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

Joe Conason

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I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

Jenny Frost

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When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.

Joel Robuchon

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But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

John Leeson

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I can't give into hate. It's too great a burden to bear. I have to stick with love.

Meghan McCain

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Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

John Madden

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The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.

Angela Ahrendts

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Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

Mencius

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What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

Robert Duvall

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You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.

Rodrigo Duterte

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It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Chloe Sevigny

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I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

Annie Dillard

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