Eric Whitacre Quotes
For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
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My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
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I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.
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History breaks down in images not into stories.
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I have reason to know, as do many of you, that when the evidence on a controversial subject is fairly and calmly presented, the public recognizes it for what it is-an effort to illuminate rather than to agitate.
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Those who use this countries great tradition of freedom of speech should not seek to deny that same freedom to others, especially to those who, like Mr Powell, spent their war years in distinguished service in the Forces.
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Should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours.
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I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
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The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.
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I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.
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I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
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Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's sort of like you're supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That's a generalization; that's what the mentality has been.
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For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.
