Eric Drooker Quotes
With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
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Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
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What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality?' It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
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As mayor, I'm charged with a big-picture agenda.
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We try to eat at home four or five days a week.
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For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.
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I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!
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Everyone says to hydrate on the plane, but I don't.
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I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
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Don't lose your love for yourself and how much you've grown and how far you've come.
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I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
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Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
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People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
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A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.
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You need a long-term coach to be able to win.
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With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.
