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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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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Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
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I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I'm generally a low-key guy.
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I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'
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I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.
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I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
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When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
