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Eric Whitacre Quotes

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 2, 1970

Topics

Doing Know First Six Eight Months

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

Life Shape Like Much Novel Very

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

Balance Understanding Intellectual

When it comes to money, I provide for my family, and that's important to me.

Family Money Me Important Provide

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

Short Attention You Everyone Content

I collect toys.

Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue.

Hispanic Cannot Continue Republicans

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

Technology Pet Writing Song You Get

I love 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Days of Thunder,' so after I did 'The Skulls,' I was like, 'I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!' Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, 'Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.' They asked if I wanted to do it.

Love Sun Me Racing Doing You

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

You Know Pleasure Bite Hook Bait

My hearing loss was essentially due to noise exposure during my military service. I was on an anti-submarine sub-chaser in WWII, and we had lots of depth charges going off all around us. There were plenty of explosions, and they were loud!

Service Loss Military Hearing Noise

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

History Democracy World Long

Randomly enough, my older sisters went to a makeup school when they were younger, so they're all really good at it. They've always told me that 'natural is better.'

Good School Me Makeup Better Enough

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