Chris Robinson Quotes
Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I've never been a partier.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
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Living in London, you feel the sense of how it has developed into a service city. People come here from around the world - both to launder their money and launder their reputations.
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Joe and I always say that our guide through action is always story and character. We're always driving right at the character beats, or else the action beat doesn't work.
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Like or loathe Donald J. Trump, you have to give him this: He's done more to shine a spotlight on the loopholes and fundamental unfairness of the tax code than any other American president.
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Some guy in Germany has my face tattooed on the back of his calf. That was wild. It was a decent tattoo job, but that's kind of weird for me.
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The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.
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Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
