Robert Wilkie Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
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Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
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The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'
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In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.
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I won't be waitin' any more cause I know Baby, baby I was made for you
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Com'รจ in proverbio, ognun corre a far legnaAll'arbore che 'l vento in terra getta.
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I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
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Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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I was a musician first before anything.
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In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.
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The last thing I will pay attention to is any of the usual Washington back and forth.
