Robbie Robertson Quotes
I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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I have rules for everything.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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Time will heal everything.
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But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
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To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
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I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
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I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.
