Robert Wilson Quotes
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
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I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.
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Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.
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I think of love as an action. Finding something that's outside of yourself, to serve someone else's soul, helping to ignite someone else's spirit, to bring about ease of heart and joy, serenity in somebody else.
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So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
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The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.
