Robert Hilburn Quotes

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If you want someone who is sort of still, has a bit of an edge, is older, you get Morgan Freeman. If you want someone who can carry a gun and still play a father, you get Danny Glover. My category is 'that guy who happens to be black.'

Joe Morton

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You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

Stieg Larsson

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I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.

Sidney Sheldon

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I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

Tomas Transtromer

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Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

Robert Duvall

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Oh, I ain't vegan, I'm good. I eat. I eat everything. Except pork, you know, I try to stay away. I like me some bacon, though!

Ro James

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I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

Loni Love

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My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.

Dean Kamen

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There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

Deborah Norville

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Sometimes, comedy feels like the kid brother of drama, trying to get attention by being the class jokester. But it's actually really hard to tell a story while also making people laugh. It's like trying to do two jobs at once.

Christopher Miller

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