Robbie Williams Quotes
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
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Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
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I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers. There are heroes in the seaweed, There are children in the morning, They are leaning out for love, And they will lean that way forever, While Suzanne holds the mirror.
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Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.
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Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my wife, she volunteers helping underprivileged kids, that's her art. To me, anything that you do that you truly believe in makes you an artist. It doesn't necessarily mean being a painter or a film maker. That's art, but there's more to it than that. As long as you're pouring your heart and soul into what you're doing, that's the weapon.
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There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.
