Jill Robinson Quotes
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.
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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
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I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.
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When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
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I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
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The American Dream is really money.
