Robert Trujillo Quotes
I've been friends with Jaco Pastorius's son since 1996 - Johnny Pastorius, the eldest son. And I remember when I first met him, I said, 'Some day, you've gotta make a film about your father,' because his influence is so broad.
Quotes to Explore
-
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
-
Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
-
I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
-
People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
-
I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
-
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
-
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
-
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
-
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
-
The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
-
I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
-
A girl's best friend is her pride.
-
The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
-
Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
-
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
-
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
-
I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
-
If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
-
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.
-
Man have to have friends even in hell.
-
So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.
-
I've been friends with Jaco Pastorius's son since 1996 - Johnny Pastorius, the eldest son. And I remember when I first met him, I said, 'Some day, you've gotta make a film about your father,' because his influence is so broad.
