Robert Wyatt Quotes
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
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I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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I told you when I came I was a stranger.
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I aroused Judith’s contempt by asking what good all this was likely to do to mankind? There is no question that annoys your true scientist more.
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Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.
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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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I've always wanted to perform and act my whole life and to understand people more, so that's the only reason I've got to work with the people I've worked with.
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Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
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What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.
