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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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 went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties.
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No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.
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I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.
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Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason.
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It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.
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For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.
