Robert Trujillo Quotes
I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I only understand realism.
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Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
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This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.
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All my life is in Spain. I will stay.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.
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I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.
