Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Quotes
My time is being shared with my fans and the people of the world, while I have got children growing with a lot of days of not seeing their father.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.
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Children are not children. They are just younger people.
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My time is being shared with my fans and the people of the world, while I have got children growing with a lot of days of not seeing their father.
