Robert Smith Quotes
When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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…the cold deflation of crapula…
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Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
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Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
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When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan realized that the attacks might not be the stunning victory that bin Laden, and many in the West, took them to be.
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The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
