Robin Gibb Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.
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I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.
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My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
