C Robert Cargill Quotes
“The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they act like people.”
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
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My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
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I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
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I respect all the fighters. I respect Jon Jones. I respect Chris Weidman, but I'm here for working.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
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I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.
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Acting has always been my passion and will remain so.
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“The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they act like people.”
