Eric Whitacre Quotes

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

Eric Whitacre

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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.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Inspiration

• 'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Peace
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Objects
  • Processes

• I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Jokes
  • Stolen
  • References

• 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.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

  

  Laura Bush
  • America
  • Think
  • Media

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Women

• There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Perfect
  • Security
  • Insecurity

• 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.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• History breaks down in images not into stories.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • History

• 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.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Effort

• 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.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Country
  • Today
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Up
  • Gun

• The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Up
  • Winning

• If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Movie

• I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

  

  Emma Roberts

• You can look at 'Rumours' and say, 'Well, the album is bright, and it's clean, and it's sunny.' But everything underneath is so dark and murky. What was going on between us created a resonance that goes beyond the music itself.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Music
  • Dark

• One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

  

  Alice James
  • Experience
  • Doctor
  • Interview

• Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • Writing
  • Independent

• I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

  

  Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.
  • Different
  • Listening

• For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

  

  Eric Whitacre