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.
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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.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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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.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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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.
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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?
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
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Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall!
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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.
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The destruction of the past, or rather of the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of ealier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century.
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Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.
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Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
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There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.
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Always try the problem that matters most to you.
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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.
