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Erik Rutan
"I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am."
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Source : Source: pitchfork.com
Erik Rutan
#Adversity Quotes
#Who I Am Quotes
#Challenges Quotes
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“Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.”
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“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.”
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“Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.”
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“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”
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“My God, what have we done?”
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“There was a criticism that stuck with me a little bit, which is that somebody said that I was jumping on a bandwagon by talking about sexuality. Obviously that's not a massive takedown, but I found that personally quite offensive because it's something that I've been living with and dealing with my whole life, and just because I decided to speak about it now is not me jumping on a bandwagon; it's a reflection of how I feel within this industry and how I've grown in the past five years.”
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“Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.”
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“My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.”
