Eric Drooker Quotes
Typically your work will end up in a museum after you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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Love is just chemistry.
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I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.
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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
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My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard.
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Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'
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Typically your work will end up in a museum after you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.
