Robert Palmer Quotes
I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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God does arithmetic.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I love playing odd roles.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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He was a big man, about 6-5. He had this leadership aura about him. You knew he was in charge. He was prepared and understood the game. He knew what it took to win. He was hard on players, but they understood what he stood for.
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I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.
