Robert Wilson Quotes
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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I am a contrarian.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
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For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.
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I'm good at keeping secrets.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
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Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was fucking wrong, wasn't I? You see, because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN!
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I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
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The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.
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No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
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In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
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Each of us lives at the intersection of many identities, it's important that television characters reflect the full diversity of the LGBT community.
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I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
