Robert Wyatt Quotes
I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
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'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!
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Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.
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On my off day, I really want to just lay in bed.
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
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I flew home to Pittsburgh, and my management called me to ask if I wanted to perform on 'Dancing With the Stars' with Charlie Puth. I'm like, 'What? I grew up watching the show!'
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I want to make dubstep something beautiful.
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Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.
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I think baseball was really reality when I was a freshman in high school.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.
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I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
