Robert Wyatt Quotes

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Robert Wyatt

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• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Never
  • Afraid

• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Live
  • Family
  • Looking

• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Like
  • Born
  • Almost

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Person
  • Relationships

• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Fun
  • You
  • Places

• Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Health
  • Boundaries
  • Over

• Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Want

• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Government
  • Financial

• Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Live
  • Real
  • Energy

• I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Know
  • Taken
  • Look

• The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Love
  • Struggle

• Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Nice
  • Space
  • Chance

• I'm trying to build a brand. I'm not just doing one-off projects.

  

  Brandon T. Jackson
  • Trying

• The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

  

  Heraclitus
  • People
  • Fight
  • Laws

• There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Children
  • Age

• I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

  

  James Fallows

• I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Art
  • Farmer
  • Academic

• When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Trying
  • Singing
  • Feels