Robert Smith Quotes
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.
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When me and my author friends who write about other difficult subject matter... when you hear from teens daily saying, 'Your book helped me or made me understand a friend better, what somebody else is going through,' you see the positive things.
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
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American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.
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When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
