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Steve Erickson Quotes

At the age that I was when I stopped reading comics, and with a set of talents that would seem to mark a future comic-book auteur, my son has had only a passing enthusiasm for the medium.

Steve Erickson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 20, 1950

Topics

Future Son Age Reading Enthusiasm

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.

John Caudwell

Life Time Me My Life Enough Want

'The Whole Truth' was a mistake.

Maura Tierney

Truth Mistake Whole

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Anna Kendrick

Humble Humility People Ambition Say

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

Matt Busby

Team Youth Coaching Dream Young Why

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.

John Shelton Reed

People Black Heritage I Can Want

I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.

John Singleton

Dress Cool Get Wanted Ladies

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

Stefan Molyneux

Good Book Bad Clearly Own Actions

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

Steven Johnson

Door You Possible Need Open Error

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

Simon Van Booy

Yourself Space Landscape You Need

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

Robert Capa

Life War Horse Hands Back Own

Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.

Mary Steenburgen

Day Dance Date Anytime Had Hawkins

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

Michel Hazanavicius

Story You Creating Silent Way Need