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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In 1972, Idi Amin expelled 80,000 Ugandan Indians and confiscated their 4,000 properties. Now, after returning those properties to their rightful owners, we have ensured that security of persons and property are guaranteed under the constitution.
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I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii.
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We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.
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Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.
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I notice a lot of people think they can solve their problems with antidepressants. That, I noticed, being like a bigger issue, like, it really strips people of who they are. Like, all your quirks and all your problems, even your depressions and your failures, that's what makes you, you. And there's a lot of drugs out there that will take that away from you.
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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
