Robert Crais Quotes

I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction.

Robert Crais

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 20, 1953

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Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.

Jhonen Vasquez

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I enjoy singing.

John Magaro

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I have always been clear about what I wanted to do and who I wanted to dress. However, you need that business sense to help direct your talent. Because at the end of the day, you are selling clothes, and that is the reality which we live in.

Matthew Williamson

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I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

Jeff Bridges

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Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Mercedes McCambridge

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I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.

Steve Hockensmith

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I think festivals have a responsibility to show different genres of music to people.

Sigrid

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Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tom Hodgkinson

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It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

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It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to shock people. We're just trying to make it funny in a way that makes the audience go, 'You know, that was the first joke they thought of, and they weren't afraid to do it.'

Jay Chandrasekhar

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These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

Atom Egoyan

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You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.

Allison Schroeder

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