Robert Wyatt Quotes
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
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If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
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This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
