Steven Erikson Quotes

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

Steven Erikson

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I don't want the sort of funeral that everybody else has, but there is one hymn, a good Protestant hymn, and it is sung at all Protestant funerals, and I think I should have it sung at mine. It is called 'The Day Thou Gave Us Lord is Ended'.

Jennifer Johnston

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I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myself better than the idea of being someone else, someone who, to be honest, I have neither the option of being nor the ability fully to imagine.

Andrew Solomon

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Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

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I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

Steven Spielberg

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It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Steven Wright

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I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

Lucille Ball

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We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Kozol

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I always want to take on the giants.

Christen Press

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'Zone One' comes out of me trying to work through some of my ideas about why, for me personally, zombies are scary.

Colson Whitehead

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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Bob Cousy

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Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.

Ari Graynor

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I feel like people in the industry are scared to take that chance because it's not easy to design plus-size clothing.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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