Erik Larson Quotes

In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one reason or another, faded from contemporary awareness.

Erik Larson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 3, 1954

Topics

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The greatest thing I can remember in my whole career was the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey clowns asking me to appear with them at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1965.

Jerry Lewis

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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Jeremy Bentham

GovernmentNeverConspiracySystem

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

Melody Carlson

ChallengeMeWritingThinkEnjoy

I think if you hold your nerve and don't sell out and become something that you're not, you can go anywhere. You know, I think that sort of heart and honesty and size travels.

Steve Bisley

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What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.

Robbie Williams

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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Michel de Montaigne

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I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.

Donny Most

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A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

Brian Molko

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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Thor Heyerdahl

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I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.

Lionel Messi

LifeFamilyFootballPeopleStart

I know it's hard for people to imagine a time when 'Hamilton' wasn't 'Hamilton,' but for years, it was just this little thing that I was telling people about that didn't make any sense to anybody as I was describing it. But I loved it.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

TimePeopleLovedKnowHardYears

It's almost comical how un-liberal liberal Hollywood is when it comes to fighting gender and racial bias.

Lexi Alexander

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