Eric Burdon Quotes
I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.
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The most wonderful thing about having a small business is that every person we dress gets a really intimate process.
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Because it's an adventure out of all proportion. You have to devote all your strength to it and it's never enough.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
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I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.
