Robert Hilburn Quotes

As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the 'friendship' is genuine.

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1939

Topics

WorkFriendshipPeopleMeYouNever

True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

Jim Cooper

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I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

John le Carre

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For a country that makes such a fuss about love on the 14th of February, America has a funny way of showing it on the other 364 days of the year.

Amanda Foreman

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Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

Robbie Robertson

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Combining their operating business will make Volkswagen and Porsche even stronger - both financially and strategically - going forward.

Martin Winterkorn

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The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

Dixie Carter

ThoughtUsShowJustPrettiestWere

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

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We talk about how hard it is now. But if we look back at the '60s, we actually had a president that was assassinated. We had riots, we had Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the FBI, and the Black Panther war. There was so much happening at the time where it felt like America was coming apart at the seams.

Antoine Fuqua

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I learned it from videos.

Psy

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I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

Sheridan Smith

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In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

Tim Murphy

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