Eric Roberson Quotes

When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.

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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.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Work
  • Giving

• Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Everyone
  • Invest

• The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.

  

  Kanye West
  • Crazy
  • Would Be
  • Bars

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Time
  • Interests

• As if the world and they were hand and glove.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Hands
  • Gloves

• One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Anybody
  • Oneself
  • Perishes

• I'm always trying to want to connect with fans and to connect them to each other. I mean, there's other things that I'm trying to do, but in terms of connectivity, that is really important to me. And I am a smaller artist still and there are people that are super passionate about my music, but not everyone in their circle knows about me. But yeah, I've always trying to find ways to connect fans to each other.

  

  Alexandra Ashley Hughes Austra
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Act
  • The Beatles
  • Roy Orbison

• And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • People
  • Parents
  • Stuff

• When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Remember
  • Sometimes
  • Actors

• Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Girl
  • Stupid
  • Glamorous

• I said from the very beginning that I was looking for the best person, I had no doubt it was Roger Goodell.

  

  Dan Rooney
  • Beginning
  • Person
  • Doubt

• I've become really good friends with Ringo and he also has expressed admiration for the first album and the drumming on the first album. I remember back in the day, Bruce our drummer met him and he asked for Knack buttons for his kids. So, it was pretty cool.

  

  Doug Fieger The Knack
  • Friends
  • Admiration
  • Drummer

• Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Connected

• I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Global Economy
  • Job market
  • Structural changes

• When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.

  

  Eric Roberson
  • Connected
  • Write A Song