Sylvia (Sylvia Robinson) Quotes

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

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• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Emotional

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Good
  • You
  • Pressure

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Free
  • Survive
  • Questioning

• Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Single

• Everyone has class, one class or another.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Class
  • Everyone
  • Another

• My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Father
  • Year
  • Congress

• Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Up
  • Red

• I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.

  

  James Wolk
  • Up
  • Work

• If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Smart

• When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

  

  Alan Dale
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Mercy

• Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • People
  • Good

• Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

  

  Kirk Kerkorian
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Game

• You never know what's going to happen. It's kind of nice to limit your expectations so when something clicks, you go, 'Hey, that's nice. Thank you.'

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Nice

• When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.

  

  James Wan
  • People
  • Different
  • Discipline

• With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Great
  • Kids

• Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

  

  Carmen Boullosa
  • Writing
  • Language
  • Humans

• A lot of people think technology is a solution, but it's really just a canvas for your work. It can make good things amazing and bad things terrible. Facebook allows you to have access to mass audience really quickly if you do creative really well.

  

  David Droga
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Happy

• I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

  

  Sylvia
  • Different
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