Eric Drooker Quotes
If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or on the street, walking on Fourteenth Street. I don't want it to be some narrow public that I myself feel alienated from.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
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I'm a big supporter of immigration.
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You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.
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A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
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Mania is a wonderful feeling.
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We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.
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I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
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The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.
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As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.
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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
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If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or on the street, walking on Fourteenth Street. I don't want it to be some narrow public that I myself feel alienated from.
