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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 -
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.
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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
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I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.
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The company Liberated People represents just not liberation of different nations around the world; it can be special liberation days. It can be what the company represents and helps highlight someone's personal liberation date.
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I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.
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In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.
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We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.
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I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
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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.
