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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There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.
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I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music.
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Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.
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You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.
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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.
