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've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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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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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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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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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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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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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.
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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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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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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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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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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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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
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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.
