Robert Trujillo Quotes
The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.
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'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
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Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
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The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
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You know, 'Star Wars' - even when it gets dark, it comes back to the light - it makes you feel good. I think families enjoy watching it and sharing in it.
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I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead of a window. I thought it was kind of a cool idea.
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For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.
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Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.
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The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
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The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.
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For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.
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Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.
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If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
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The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.
