C Robert Cargill Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
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I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.
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I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.
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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
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To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores
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It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends, chilling out with lot of music around.
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I was very shy as a child. Very shy. Lot of problems with very simple things. Like entering a restaurant all by myself.
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People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
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“No thinking thing should be another thing's property.”
