Eric Drooker Quotes
Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
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What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
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Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
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I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
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Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.
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As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.
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I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.
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I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.
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Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.
