Robert Trujillo Quotes
I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.
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'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
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'It's not about money right now. My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
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In college, I pretty much abandoned music and started performing with the school's improv and sketch troupe, and at some point, that became my permanent thing.
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You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.
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And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.
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I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
