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Eric Burdon Quotes

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 11, 1941

Topics

You Done Out Pray Something Just

Writing is more important than being a writer.

Writing Important More Being Writer

I got the job I wanted when I was 22, and I'm not going to give it up now.

Job Now Up Got Going Give

When you found a company, you feel a deep sense of responsibility for it. I'll care about Dell even after I'm dead. So this is a pretty personal process. And when you're doing what you love, and it's working, you don't get tired working what other people might consider long hours or crazy schedules. It's just fun. It's energizing.

Love Responsibility Fun Tired People

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

Challenge People Me Doing Strange

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

Interesting Want More Clear Stuff

All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.

Coffee Book Picture Idiot You Why

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

Good Car Grief Wife Beard Charity

Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.

Jonathan Galassi

Yourself You Look Editing More Ask

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Bryant H. McGill

People Think Know Knowing Even Most

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Anthony Bourdain

Money I Am Opinion Saying Choices

A good lather is half the shave.

Good Half Shave

I like Chekov a lot.

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