Robin Trower Quotes
I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, 'This is what you're going to wear, this is what you're going to hold, and remember, you're lucky to be here, and shut up.'
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The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
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I wanted to prove to myself and to the director that I was not just a singer but that I could act as well.
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I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that.
