Robert Wyatt Quotes
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.
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With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
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I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people.
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Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
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In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.
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I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.
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I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
