Robert Hilburn Quotes

Because record companies do not routinely release sales figures the way film studios do, the weekly charts in trade publications like 'Billboard' provide the best independent measure of record appeal.

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people. And that would not include illegal aliens.

Joe Wilson

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When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.

Jenny Downham

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We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

Maxine Peake

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Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

Matthew Ashford

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Whenever I meet someone who's talented, I always want to write something for them!

Jeff Garlin

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My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

Julia Cameron

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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

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I knew very early what I wanted to do, and I considered myself lucky to know that's what I wanted, even in a place like Saint Lucia where there was no publishing house and no theatre.

Derek Walcott

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There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Denise Mina

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This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

Donald Johanson

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Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

Brian Azzarello

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If you want to have the clarity and steadiness to deal with that '3:00 A.M. phone call,' you should better have made sure that you're not running on empty when that phone rings.

Arianna Huffington

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