Robin Gibb Quotes
If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong – it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.
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I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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Through the years, I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have shared how much they relate to my 'Sordid Lives' family, and how many gay men and women used it to come out to their conservative families through the humor of the film.
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If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong – it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.
