Ed Robertson Quotes
I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?
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We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
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I think people look at recruiting and they don't realize you've got to go back four years ago to get this senior class. Sanctions don't hit you the first year. They hit you down the road. Unfortunately, that's what has happened, to a degree, to this program. I don't want to put it all on that.
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All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.
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I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.
