"I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Michael Cerveris

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“When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head.”
“The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San Francisco Peaks where the ski resort, one of the holiest, sacred mountains in Navajo cosmology. I mean, it's considered a horrible desecration. I mean, you know, put it into another cultural context and you wouldn't be able to think of that being, with any other racial group. But for Indians because, you know, we think they really don't care about land or they have primitive ideas or they don't have ownership, we completely disrespect that.”
“[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.”
“Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.”
“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”
“Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.”
“I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.”
“I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.”

Source : Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 2007.

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