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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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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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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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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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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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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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
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I loved working with Mandy Patinkin, I have to say.
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My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.
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I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
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Why would you want to dictate somebody else's taste or happiness? Music is supposed to be joyful and move people, and however that gets accomplished for different people, it's all good.
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I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
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We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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The last thing I will pay attention to is any of the usual Washington back and forth.
