Robert Wyatt Quotes
I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
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It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.
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We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children.I do not even have any regrets.
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The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.
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I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
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I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I couldn't do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then it's part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.
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With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
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To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.
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I like to get goals.
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I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is.
